Spacewalking astronauts wrap up battery improvements (Update)
A pair of spacewalking astronauts successfully wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall.
A pair of spacewalking astronauts successfully wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall.
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Jan 20, 2020
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Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station.
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Jan 15, 2020
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Four astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for three spacewalks in January to complete battery upgrades and finalize repairs to an invaluable cosmic ray detector.
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Jan 9, 2020
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Spacewalking astronauts installed new pumps on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Monday in a bid to extend its scientific life.
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Dec 2, 2019
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Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Friday for the second week in a row to repair a cosmic ray detector, this time actually cutting into the $2 billion instrument.
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Nov 22, 2019
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The date is set for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's first spacewalk of his Beyond mission. Friday 15 November marks the start of a series of complex spacewalks to service the cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ...
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Nov 11, 2019
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The astronauts who took part in the first all-female spacewalk are still uplifted by all the excitement down on Earth.
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Oct 21, 2019
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US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir on Friday became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalkâa historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon.
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Oct 18, 2019
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The world's first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station's power grid.
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Oct 18, 2019
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Men have floated out the hatch on all 420 spacewalks conducted over the past half-century.
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Oct 17, 2019
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