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.
Not exact matches
His
spacewalking partner, Soichi Noguchi, first
tested the tool on their initial
spacewalk on Saturday.
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.
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.