Sentences with phrase «spacewalks in»

A series of corrective mirrors were fixed to the telescope in an unprecedented series of five spacewalks in a single space shuttle flight.

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

Apollo 11 astronaut, Dr. Buzz Aldrin, who performed the first successful spacewalk in 1966, delivered the keynote address at the 8th International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) in Cannes, France and thousands of travel industry insiders gathered to listen.

Not exact matches

The photo, taken Dec. 24, 2013, features NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins as he participates in the second of two spacewalks.

In 1966, he performed the first spacewalk.

In «Gasp,» Hadfield describes a frightening moment during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station when his eyes watered.

China has already put astronauts into orbit, becoming only the third country to do so in 2003; this past September, Chinese astronauts completed their country's first spacewalk.

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.

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.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

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

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 spacewalk will be the 179th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the ninth in Mastracchio's career and the fifth for Swanson.

Meanwhile aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 39 crew is in the homestretch of preparations for a spacewalk to replace a failed backup computer relay box in the S0 truss.

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.

Its morphing design means it should be less unwieldy than today's suits and allow astronauts to be more efficient, both during spacewalks and in planetary exploration, Jacobs told the...

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).

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

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.

It's a new day in space aboard the International Space Station, and three Expedition 55 crew members are prepping for an upcoming spacewalk and cargo - transfer activities while also sharing the wonders of our orbiting laboratory.

In the following two weeks the expanded Expedition 55 crew will conduct a spacewalk and welcome a new SpaceX Dragon cargo craft.

Ronald Garan, Jr. is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA during four spacewalks.

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.

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.

Then, the chapter closes with a bang — a proper spacewalk just outside of the atmosphere of a nearby planet, in which we're slinging ourselves from one piece of debris to another, eventually taking shelter in another spoke of the station.

When their shuttle is destroyed during a routine spacewalk, a veteran astronaut and a brilliant engineer are stranded in space together.

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.

The Soviet / Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov took an important business trip in 1965 — the first spacewalk.

Oxygen and vacuum are modeled in and outside the base, and citizens must contend with airlocks and execute spacewalks to construct new base segments.

The various heroes we can control in Extraction's 10 levels can run, crawl, climb, swim, fall, pilot spaceships, spacewalk, jump through zero - gravity — all under the control of the computer — while the player worries about making those same heroes shoot, chop, saw, hack, heal, illuminate and snatch.

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 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.»

In 2001, aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks — the first Canadian to do so — and in 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so faIn 2001, aboard Shuttle Endeavour, Colonel Hadfield performed two spacewalks — the first Canadian to do so — and in 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so fain 2013 he was Commander of the International Space Station — the first only Canadian to ever command a spaceship — so far.

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

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.