Posted on 06/14/2018 9:41:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Thursday and installed two new cameras on the front of the lab complex that will provide views of commercial crew ships during final approach and docking. The spacewalkers also replaced a faulty high-definition camera and closed a door that was jammed open on an external instrument.
Floating in the Quest airlock, Expedition 56 commander Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:06 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), kicking off what turned out to be a six-hour 49-minute excursion.
It was the fifth spacewalk overall for Arnold and the ninth for Feustel, who now ranks third in the world, logging a total of 61 hours and 48 minutes across nine EVAs. The all-time record is held by Anatoly Solovyev, who logged 78 hours and 21 minutes of spacewalk time during 16 excursions.
Records aside, the major goal of U.S. EVA-51 was installation of two new cameras on the front of the forward Harmony module that will provide views of Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX crewed Dragon spacecraft during final approach to a new docking mechanism mounted on the port where space shuttles once attached.
The new crew ferry ships are intended to end NASA's sole reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to carry U.S., European, Japanese and Canadian astronauts to the outpost, restoring American space transportation capability that was lost when the shuttle program ended in 2011.
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“Space Selfies”? Coming to a bookstore near you.
Were they security camera’s?
And all this time I thought they were unclogging the toilet
Surveillance cameras, so they can watch you, to make sure you are not burning too much wood in your back yard BBQ, thereby increasing your carbon footprint too much. 😁
Prior to the cameras, they never knew who was at the door.
Are they speed cameras or red light cameras?
#8 They are going 18,000mph over the speed limit.
They got me there I have a wood stove and burn all winter..
Were they security camera’s?
I thought they may try to stove break ins!
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