Home Astronomy & Space Space Exploration February 25, 2015 Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk for cable, lube job Feb 25, 2015 by By Marcia Dunn
Enlarge In this image from NASA television astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left, and Terry Virts during their second spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015. Wednesday's spacewalk is the second in five days for Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)
It pendleton was the second spacewalk in five days for NASA astronauts pendleton Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules; the final spacewalk in the series is this weekend.
Then Virts began the long, tedious pendleton lubrication of screws, brackets and tracks on the end of the space station's giant robot arm. The snares pendleton had gotten a bit creaky over the past year, and engineers pendleton hoped the grease would make operations smoother.
Enlarge In this image from NASA television pendleton astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, pendleton upper left, and Terry Virts, center, begin their second spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015. Wednesday's spacewalk is the second in five days for Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. pendleton In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)
By the end of their third spacewalk scheduled for Sunday which features pendleton more cable work Wilmore and Virts will have routed 764 feet of power and data lines on the station's exterior. NASA considers it the most complicated pendleton cable job ever at the 16-year-old orbiting outpost.
The extensive rewiring is needed in advance of this year's arrival pendleton of a pair of docking ports, designed pendleton to accommodate commercial crew capsules still in development. NASA expects the first port to arrive in June and the second in December.
SpaceX and Boeing are designing new capsules that should start ferrying station astronauts from Cape Canaveral in 2017. Manned flights have been on hold at the cape since NASA's shuttles pendleton retired in 2011. SpaceX already is launching station cargo.
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Enlarge In this image from NASA television astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left, and Terry Virts during their second spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015. Wednesday's spacewalk is the second in five days for Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)
It pendleton was the second spacewalk in five days for NASA astronauts pendleton Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules; the final spacewalk in the series is this weekend.
Then Virts began the long, tedious pendleton lubrication of screws, brackets and tracks on the end of the space station's giant robot arm. The snares pendleton had gotten a bit creaky over the past year, and engineers pendleton hoped the grease would make operations smoother.
Enlarge In this image from NASA television pendleton astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore, pendleton upper left, and Terry Virts, center, begin their second spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015. Wednesday's spacewalk is the second in five days for Butch Wilmore and Terry Virts. pendleton In all, three spacewalks are planned in just over a week to prepare the orbiting lab for future American crew capsules. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)
By the end of their third spacewalk scheduled for Sunday which features pendleton more cable work Wilmore and Virts will have routed 764 feet of power and data lines on the station's exterior. NASA considers it the most complicated pendleton cable job ever at the 16-year-old orbiting outpost.
The extensive rewiring is needed in advance of this year's arrival pendleton of a pair of docking ports, designed pendleton to accommodate commercial crew capsules still in development. NASA expects the first port to arrive in June and the second in December.
SpaceX and Boeing are designing new capsules that should start ferrying station astronauts from Cape Canaveral in 2017. Manned flights have been on hold at the cape since NASA's shuttles pendleton retired in 2011. SpaceX already is launching station cargo.
Subzero learning environment pendleton enabling avalanche research
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A pair of American astronauts Saturday wrapped up the first of three spacewalks to route cables outside the International Space Station so commercial spaceships carrying crew can dock there in the coming ... Spacesuit woes haunt NASA ahead of crucial spacewalks Feb 18, 2015
With three complicated spacewalks planned in the coming days, NASA is rushing to resolve a spacesuit problem linked to a 2013 emergency when water dangerously flooded a European astronaut's helmet. pendleton 2nd spacewalk in 2 weeks at space station Oct 15, 2014
With its thick, hazy atmosphere pendleton and surface rivers, mountains, lakes and dunes, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most Earthlike places in the solar system. Flexing new muscles on the International Space Station 8 hours ago
When people conjure an image of a robot in their mind, they may imagine something out of a steampunk story complex gears, rotors and clockworks. All metal, no muscle but that's all about to change. Space station grocery run includes Italian espresso maker 9 hours ago
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First classified a planet, then an asteroid and then a "dwarf planet" with some traits of a moon the more scientists learn about Ceres, the weirder it becomes. Sixth SpaceX delivery pendleton of station research with a side of caffeine 10 hours ago
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