Sentences with phrase «spacewalk on»

There are Kevlar tires, more than a dozen interlocking communication systems and a cockpit designed by Story Musgrave, who performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger's first flight.

It was his call to terminate the spacewalk on safety grounds.

and «in a simulator practicing for the first spacewalk on my mission.»

The spacewalkers will squeeze the task into their third spacewalk on Wednesday.

His spacewalking partner, Soichi Noguchi, first tested the tool on their initial spacewalk on Saturday.

Scott Kelly poses for the camera during a spacewalk on Dec. 21, 2015.

Not exact matches

On Oct. 28, the following day, Kelly would embark on the first spacewalk of his careeOn Oct. 28, the following day, Kelly would embark on the first spacewalk of his careeon the first spacewalk of his career.

The feeling I have is that I'm on a spacewalk and I've been assigned to make a critical repair, like in the movie Gravity.

Data collected in space, like video transmission of a spacewalk, travel as radio signals from antennas on spacecraft to much larger antennas on Earth, some with diameters up to 230 feet.

Artemyev checked in with spacewalk specialists on the ground for a tag up.

Clad in bulky spacesuits, station commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Dan Tani floated outside the station for seven hours on the 100th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance.

Spacewalking astronauts and technicians on the ground conducted a day of trouble - shooting that shed light on a spate of problems that have stalled construction of the International Space Station, NASA managers said on Tuesday.

Some of those microbes, swabbed near vents during spacewalks, were not found on the spacecraft's exterior when it launched.

The European Space Agency is embarking on a Man in Virtual Space project, which will investigate whether astronauts can train for spacewalks without the need for buoyancy tanks.

A Shuttle - Mir veteran and a spacewalking virtuoso will join the ranks of other spaceflight legends on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3, at the Kennedy Space Center -LSB-...]

NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei took another spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, this time to grease the robot Johann August Ephraim Goeze originally named the tardigrade kleiner Wasserbär (Bärtierchen today), meaning little water bear in German.

But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes.

Watching the actors spacewalk does unfortunately also look very much like they're walking on a set... very... slowly.

A British and American joint shuttle mission (aboard the shuttle Churchill) is up above the earths atmosphere doing research on the comet when they notice something weird clinging onto the front of it and they get a radar readout and see that it is a craft of some sort, the crew is able to get the shuttle close enough to do a spacewalk and investigate the craft and Col. Tom Carlsen takes his crew into an open spot and sees hundreds of dead bat like creatures, and they have been drained of all of their fluids.

Specifically, NASA uses VR to train astronauts in the aspect of spacewalking - an action where the astronaut leaves a spaceship environment to perform an action like replacing a faulty module on a spacecraft.

On the subject of being in space, you also have the occasional mission that may want you to spacewalk, by floating about outside and grappling to debris to travel through the void.

[On this Christmas Eve, two astronauts on the International Space Station are in the midst of a «spacewalk» (there has to be a better term) to repair cooling equipmenOn this Christmas Eve, two astronauts on the International Space Station are in the midst of a «spacewalk» (there has to be a better term) to repair cooling equipmenon the International Space Station are in the midst of a «spacewalk» (there has to be a better term) to repair cooling equipment.

The solution may lie in «throwing» the unit: during a forthcoming spacewalk, three astronauts, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and American astronaut Clay Anderson, plan on releasing the EAS from the station's surface and using a robot arm to give it a «good shove.»

Astronauts use white spacesuits when they go on spacewalks to do work outside the space shuttle or International Space Station.

For an additional $ 20 million, you can stay aboard the space hotel for up to a month and even have the opportunity to join an astronaut on a spacewalk.

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel seemingly hangs off the International Space Station while conducting a spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold (out of frame) on March 29, 2018.

China's space program has made rapid progress since it launched its first crewed mission in 2003 - becoming only the third country after Russia and the U.S. to do so - including placing a rover on the moon and conducting a spacewalk.