International Space Station Astronauts Conduct Third Spacewalk in Eight Days

Out­side the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, Expe­di­tion 42 Com­man­der Bar­ry Wilmore and Flight Engi­neer Ter­ry Virts of NASA con­duct­ed their third space­walk in eight days March 1 to install anten­nas and com­mu­ni­ca­tions gear that will be used to pro­vide ren­dezvous and nav­i­ga­tion­al infor­ma­tion to vis­it­ing vehi­cles approach­ing the com­plex in the future, includ­ing the new U.S. com­mer­cial crew vehi­cles. Wilmore and Virts installed about 400 feet of cable along the truss of the sta­tion as part of the new Com­mon Com­mu­ni­ca­tions for Vis­it­ing Vehi­cles (C2V2) sys­tem. In two pre­vi­ous space­walks on Feb. 21 and Feb. 25, the two astro­nauts rigged cables for new Inter­na­tion­al Dock­ing Adapter ports that will be deliv­ered to the com­plex this year and lubri­cat­ed the grap­pling end of the Cana­di­an-built Canadarm2 robot­ic arm.

I still think NASA is heav­i­ly under funded.

32 12 = CA EA isnt’t it?

What’s the effi­cien­cy of all these out­side works men do, in per­cent­age ? Would­n’t it be more effi­cient and cheap­er to con­struct and use robots for some kind of works?

That’s scary and cool at the same time

is it pos­si­ble for these guys to slip away and float off into space? That’s pret­ty crazy stuff. Astro­nauts are amaz­ing people.

Great.….….….…..

Pret­ty heady stuff, work­ing for a liv­ing by run­ning EVAs, falling for­ev­er into a bright blue eye.  Most inter­est­ing job cur­rent­ly pur­sued by mem­bers of the human species.  You guys/gals rock!

I con­fess to a cer­tain sur­prise, how­ev­er, that the out­side sur­faces of the ISS aren’t cov­ered with “Safe Work­place” and “500 days with­out acci­dents” signs … and Grafi­ti, of course.

I love astronomy

When I grow up I want to be an astronaunt

I would be so scared