Posted on 11/02/2023 10:45:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O’Hara (bottom) team up during their first spacewalk for maintenance on the outside of the space station. Credit: NASA TV
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara concluded their spacewalk today at 2:47 p.m. EST after 6 hours and 42 minutes. Their spacewalk began at 8:05 a.m. Moghbeli, designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), was wearing a suit with red stripes. O’Hara, designated extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), was in an unmarked suit.
Moghbeli and O’Hara were able to complete one of the spacewalk’s two major objectives, replacing one of the 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint, which allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the station. Mission Control told the station crew that the solar array was functioning well after the bearing replacement. Spacewalkers also removed a handling bar fixture to prepare for future installation of a roll-out solar array and properly configured a cable that was previously interfering with an external camera.
Deferred Tasks and Tool Bag Incident
The astronauts had planned to remove and stow a communications electronics box called the Radio Frequency Group, but there was not enough time during the spacewalk to complete the work. The duo lifted some multilayer insulation to make a better assessment of how to approach the job before replacing the insulation and deferring the task to a future spacewalk.
(From left) Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara are pictured trying on their spacesuits and testing their suits’ components aboard the space station. Credit: NASA
During the activity, one tool bag was inadvertently lost. Flight controllers spotted the tool bag using external station cameras. The tools were not needed for the remainder of the spacewalk. Mission Control analyzed the bag’s trajectory and determined that risk of recontacting the station is low and that the onboard crew and space station are safe with no action required.
Upcoming Missions and Resupply Launch
Moghbeli and O’Hara are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting 9:16 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 7, for the launch of the company’s 29th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The additional time allows for completion of final prelaunch processing ahead of liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and cargo Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Television coverage of launch will begin at 8:45 p.m. The spacecraft, which is carrying approximately 6,500 pounds of supplies, research, and hardware will arrive at the space station shortly before 12 p.m. Thursday, November 9, with coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m.
...so it sank all the way to bottom of the NASA film studio pool?
=o)
Yea, at 20 thousand miles an hour. Its a missal and will punch a big hole in anything it comes in contact with.
Bet they packed the Birkenstocks.
Plenty of room freed up sans razor & bra.
Last few times this happened it was women too.... Just saying is all....
“Former NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost the bag during a November spacewalk to repair a bulky solar array joint on the International Space Station” - 2008
“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 away at about 10am EDT/1400 GMT on Thursday.” - 2017
“ Hope it didn’t contain a hammer, travelling 15,000 miles per hour it could do some serious damage to their station on orbit.”
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It would be going the same general speed as the space station and be in the same general orbit. In other words it would be “floating” around in the station’s vicinity as they both orbit the Earth.
OK, hopefully it doesn't float into something else in orbit not at the same speed.
Obviously, this is NASA’s fault for not selecting a tool bag more in keeping with the ladies’ color and style preferences.
Soo,who makes the sammich?
Women...tools...Just sayin’...
There’s a Tim Allen routine in there somewhere.
And how many Hundreds of thousands of dollars are in the now orbiting tool bag ???
Take My share of the money it’s going to cost to replace the “lost” tools and bag and cut that amount out of their Oxygen supply.
}{€££ the bag probably cost US TAXPAYERS $100,000.00 because it has a nasa label/patch on it...
I might pick up one of those.
I’ve heard the rumour of the $500 hammer, but I thought it was an old Navy joke.
And I get ticked off if a socket rolls underneath my truck....
Seriously!🤣
I always tell folks to slow down in space and look out for road debris. Better to take your time and get there in one piece.
You’ve got no idea of how expensive tools are and the process they have to go through to be certified to be used on spaceflight hardware. You think Snap-Ons are expensive, Ha! The RMRS requirements would twist your head around. And Tool bags floating around in orbit. I suppose they’ve never heard of positive retention. NASA never learns. I hope no one runs into X-pounds of tool steel at 15,000 mph, It will do more that damage the insulathion.
This is why you never lend your tools to women.
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