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.
Or wasted too much time taking selfies.
ladies, please.
go make me a sammich
Or looking into the shiny solar panel to see how they looked in the space suit.
Those who might wish for a 10mm may actually GET one....
Personally, I think they don’t exist.
One 10mm wrench in the kit and they lose it?
Some time in the future a starship cruise ship will be badly damaged when it gets hit by a toolbag.
not knowing what’s in it, that could be just one tool...
Probably a Kickstart Vibrator...
That cost US $40,000.00 !!!
You might be right. I once worked with a female astronaut who was most famous for losing a tool bag and passing out during a press conference. I'm sure in the history of the space program, a man has lost a tool or two, but women seem to lose them at an unacceptable rate.
No makeup, no long silky tresses, no décolletage will tend to do that.
No kidding...
That’s what you get when you have a woman do a man’s job. Political correctness has screwed the military, law enforcement, tv ,the country, etc.
[Not enough time? because they worked way too slow?]
Everything takes longer when you lost the right tools.
That looks like fun! Bet that big ol’ backpack gets HEAVY by the end of a long spacewalk though.
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Maybe they will run into to it on the next orbit.
It is a pantomime. Continue to believe the deception, at your own peril....
It is a pantomime. Continue to believe the deception, at your own peril....
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