Astronauts create history by recording nine-hour spacewalk
- 20-Dec-2024
Astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong from China achieved a remarkable feat during their recent spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station, conducting over nine hours of extravehicular activities (EVA). This event was part of China’s Shenzhou 19 mission, which comprises three crew members, and occurred from late Monday night into Tuesday morning, as reported by […]
Spacesuit issue forces early end to Russian space walk
- 18-Aug-2022
One of two cosmonauts working outside the International Space Station on Wednesday safely returned to the laboratory’s airlock after an electrical issue on his spacesuit forced Moscow’s ground control to end the routine spacewalk early, U.S. and Russian officials said. Oleg Artemyev was nearly three hours into a six-hour spacewalk when voltage levels in his […]
US astronauts make spacewalk to perform ISS repairs
- 30-Mar-2018
WASHINGTON: Two American astronauts on Thursday completed a lengthy spacewalk to replace old hoses on the the International Space Station’s cooling system and make other equipment upgrades, footage from the US space agency NASA showed. The walk — which lasted six hours and 10 minutes — by flight engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold got […]
Russia to start offering spacewalks for tourists
- 01-Feb-2018
MOSCOW: Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country’s space industry said Thursday. “We are discussing the possibility of sending tourists on spacewalks,” Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russian space company Energia, told Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. “Market analysts […]
Water leak delays historic 200th spacewalk
- 12-May-2017
MIAMI: NASA discovered a water leak Friday at the International Space Station, delaying the start of the milestone 200th spacewalk at the global space lab. The glitch affected equipment known as the servicing and cooling umbilical (SCU), which supplies power and oxygen to the spacesuits worn by veteran US astronaut Peggy Whitson and her rookie […]
Space station debris shield floats away during spacewalk
- 31-Mar-2017
CAPE CANAVERAL: A five-foot (1.5-meter) debris shield being installed on the International Space Station floated away on Thursday during a spacewalk by two veteran US astronauts, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Peggy Whitson, who became the world’s most experienced female spacewalker during the outing, told ground control teams that a bag containing the debris shield floated […]
US astronaut breaks record for most spacewalks by a woman
- 30-Mar-2017
MIAMI: American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman. Whitson, 57, is making her eighth career spacewalk, surpassing the record of seven previously held by American Suni Williams. The spacewalk formally began at 7:29 am (1129 GMT) […]
US astronauts perform seven-hour spacewalk outside station
- 02-Sep-2016
WASHINGTON: Two U.S. astronauts sailed through a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday to pack up a spare cooling radiator and tackle other maintenance, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
US astronauts install ‘new port of call’ at space station
- 20-Aug-2016
MIAMI: With more private spaceship traffic expected at the International Space Station in the coming years, two spacewalking US astronauts installed a special parking spot for them on Friday.