Sentences with phrase «spacewalk repairs»
Then there are space station spacewalk repairs to train for, software systems to learn and docking procedures for the international fleet of robotic and crewed spaceships that visit the orbiting lab.
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Unlike the Earth - orbiting Hubble, James Webb will therefore be too distant for spacewalking astronauts to service and repair.
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.
After a spacewalk to repair the shield, the mission landed safely, but continued concerns grounded missions for another year.
If these repairs do not work, NASA could attempt a fourth spacewalk.
The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.
In a May space shuttle mission to Hubble, spacewalking astronauts completed a slew of repairs and upgrades to the 19 - year - old observatory, including replacing the telescope's workhorse camera with an enhanced successor, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
He conducted three spacewalks totaling almost 20 hours that included testing tools for the first Hubble Telescope repair mission, construction of the International Space Station, and the test flight of an astronaut jet pack.
Those details are minor compared to the recall of superior space films, «Gravity» for instance, has ruined all other space movies as far as suspenseful spacewalks and ship repairs are concerned.
[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 equipment.