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  • NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: 'None of our spacesuits are spring chickens'

    11/13/2024 6:43:39 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 8 replies
    space.com ^ | 11/12/2024 | Elizabeth Howell
    The commander of SpaceX's Crew-8 astronaut mission says that NASA continues to prioritize safety while co-managing an aging space station. The International Space Station (ISS) and the spacesuit that spacewalking NASA astronauts wear, known as the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), are both decades old. And it's the age of this hardware that has led to issues with both recently, NASA astronaut and Crew-8 commander Matthew Dominick told reporters on Friday (Nov. 8). "None of our spacesuits are spring chickens, as we would say, and so we will expect to see some hardware issues with repeated use," Dominick said at a...