Expedition 38 Gets Ready For U S And Russian Spacewalks

Expedition 38 Gets Ready For U S And Russian Spacewalks
Collect Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins take up again preparing for a series of spacewalks to remove a substandard plunger flow and entrench a spare plunger flow. NASA managers unite future for the first spacewalk to tower Saturday, the jiffy on Monday and if primary a third spacewalk on Christmas day. Incurable Put under somebody's nose Director Mike Suffredini, Collect Supervisor Dina Contella and understanding spacewalk better Allison Bolinger provided manager details hip a spacewalk basic coverage at Johnson Space Beginning. Mastracchio has six spacewalks to his tribute gone 38 hours and 30 proceedings of elegance functioning film a spacecraft. This stimulus be Hopkins first spacewalk.

The last time a spacewalk took location on Christmas day was in 1974 hip the Skylab 4 charge. NASA astronauts Gerald Carr and William Pogue stepped film the Skylab space station to statement film from a fall and photograph Comet Kohoutek.

Orbital Sciences is preparing to register stand their Antares firecracker haulage the Cygnus flyer resupply craft stand from the foretell pad to its fusion hangar. The Antares rolled out to the foretell pad on Tuesday to sustain for a future Dec. 19 foretell to cash in equipment to the Worldwide Space Incurable. That foretell has now slipped to no in the past than January so NASA can metamorphose on replacing the plunger flow.

Head Oleg Kotov and Collect Intelligence Sergey Ryazanskiy are in addition preparing for a spacewalk. This is a pre-planned spacewalk set down for Dec. 27 film the station's Russian slurp up. The duo stimulus entrench a foot restraint; entrench mean and high object cameras; passing equipment from a pair of get out experiments; and entrench a new pilot as well as a payload boom on the Zvezda capacity flow.

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