SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts undock from space station, move to different port
The short "taxi" flight clears the way for arrival of another Crew Dragon later this month.
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The short "taxi" flight clears the way for arrival of another Crew Dragon later this month.
URL copied NASA astronauts conduct fifth spacewalk of 2021 US astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins have now returned to the International Space Station (ISS) after completing a spacewalk for technical and maintenance tasks, NASA said. According to CNN, the spacewalk, which assisted with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began at 8:14 a.m. ET and ended at 3:01 p.m. ET, lasting for six hours and 47 minutes. Glover and Hopkins arrived on the space station in November as part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-1 mission. This will be Glover's fourth spacewalk and the fifth for Ho...
US astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins have now returned to the International Space Station (ISS) after completing a spacewalk for technical and maintenance tasks, NASA said. According to CNN, the spacewalk, which assisted with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began at 8:14 a.m. ET and ended at 3:01 p.m. ET, lasting for six hours and 47 minutes. Glover and Hopkins arrived on the space station in November as part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-1 mission. This will be Glover's fourth spacewalk and the fifth for Hopkins. The spacewalk occured around the one-year anniversary of ma...
This was the 237th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998.
Crew members of Expedition 64 aboard the International Space Station tackled a list of to-do items that took them outside the airlock Saturday. During maintenance on an external cooling system, the astronauts had to take extra safety precautions after possibly getting toxic ammonia on their suits. Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins had no trouble removing and venting a couple of old jumper cables to remove any ammonia still lingering in the lines. But so much ammonia spewed out of the first hose that Mission Control worried some of the frozen white flakes might have gotten on their suits. Hopkin...