Sentences with word «spacewalking»

Unlike the Earth - orbiting Hubble, James Webb will therefore be too distant for spacewalking astronauts to service and repair.

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

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

As the International Space Program gets ready for a pair of spacewalks in February, the Expedition 54 crew was busy setting up a pair of experimental internal satellites and conducting vision checks today.

The pair had a five - month mission packed with six spacewalks outside the station for upgrades and repairs.

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

One type of Gemini suit, called G4C, was designed with NASA's first spacewalks in mind.

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).

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

Fresh off a record - breaking spacewalk last week, the International Space Station program is preparing for its first docking of a cargo craft in just two orbits.

They needed a workhorse spacewalk suit for such tasks, so the space agency created the Extravehicular Mobility Unit.

The astronauts would dock with the robotic tug and conduct spacewalks to investigate the boulder before returning to Earth, spending a total of almost a month in space.

James A. McDivitt (American, b. 1929) First U.S. spacewalk, Ed White's EVA (Extravehicular Activity) over the Pacific Ocean, Gemini 4, June 1965.

The first space station spacewalk of the new year, launching GOLD to study Earth's near - space environment, and - read all about it... there's NASA tech you probably use every day... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.

The ultimate goal is for the robot to perform tasks outside the station, saving the human crew the time and risk of some extravehicular activity, commonly known as spacewalks.

«The cover layer on flight suits used for spacewalks performs many other important functions like protecting the spacewalker from micrometeorite strikes, the extreme temperatures in space and the harmful effects of radiation,» they added.

The trio conducted light housekeeping work, health and science checks and minor preparations for the upcoming spacewalk.

That 2 1/2 - hour spacewalk by Mastracchio and Flight Engineer Steve Swanson is slated to begin at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday.

Space station solar panels damaged The International Space Station hit a snag on Tuesday — literally — when a solar panel being unfurled accordion - style apparently got caught on a guide wire and suffered a two and a half — foot gash and a smaller rip, forcing NASA to plan a daring spacewalk to repair it.

Two new arrivals at the International Space Station went spacewalking Thursday less than a week after moving in, completing all their work despite a slightly shortened excursion.

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.

While he said that visually Gravity was the most realistic depictions of spacewalks ever, the scene where Sandra's character takes off her spacesuit and floats around looking all smooth and sexy in black underwear and a tank top is waaaaay off the mark.

Hang a sign on the front of your bounce house that reads «moonwalk simulator» and let your astronauts bounce around, practicing for future spacewalks.

«No smoking gun yet,» said spacewalk commentator Rob Navias from NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, US.

«SpaceX Dragon heads to space; Station astronauts prep for Wednesday spacewalk.»

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.

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.

Two new arrivals at the International Space Station are out spacewalking less than a week after moving in.

women, one giant leap for womankind as NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson this week set a new spacewalking record for a female astronaut.

That historic spacewalk ended with him literally flying blind.

From spacewalks to shuttle launches, a wide ranging selection of photos and videos captured by the agency are now available to everyone.

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.

STEREO observes solar storms and probes coronal mass ejections, which can disrupt satellites, endanger spacewalking astronauts, and even knock out earthly electric power.

Buoyed by a jet - propelled backpack, Bruce McCandless II ventures far off into space during the first untethered spacewalk in February 1984.

Johnson Space Center, Houston: mission control, where astronauts train in a giant pool to simulate spacewalking.

Dragon will spend the next four weeks attached to the Harmony node as the Expedition 41 trio unloads 4,885 pounds of (2,216 kg) crew supplies, hardware, experiments, computer gear and spacewalk equipment.

Hale says he would release Atlantis from rescue status after a successful gap filler spacewalk.

Flying aboard the space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour, Reilly amassed more than 853 hours in space and completed five spacewalks before his 2008 retirement from NASA.

To protect the sensitive tiles, Robinson will be stripped of most of his normal tools so none can float up and hit the tiles, says lead spacewalk officer Cindy Begley.

With the Cygnus private cargo carrier orbiting a safe distance from the station the crew is conducting science and maintenance and focusing its attention on a Russian spacewalk Monday morning.

They also made an unprecedented spacewalk beneath the orbiter make repairs to «gap fillers» between the tiles.

If these repairs do not work, NASA could attempt a fourth spacewalk.

Cygnus delivered nearly 3,300 pounds of science, supplies and spacewalking gear when it was captured and berthed to Harmony July 16.

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.

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

Often spacewalks are done with two spacewalkers and there is continuous communication.

Two decades have passed since Endeavour's maiden voyage; a voyage which set record after record in terms of EVA, accomplishment and astronaut endurance, including the first (and so far only) three - person spacewalk.

Stan Love and Steve Bowen are lowered into the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center to test spacewalk suits and tools for a mission to an asteroid.