NASA Astronauts Conduct Second Spacewalk in Two Weeks Outside the Space Station

NASA Astro­nauts Con­duct Sec­ond Space­walk in Two Weeks Out­side the Space Station



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Out­side the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, Expe­di­tion 48 Com­man­der Jeff Williams and Flight Engi­neer Kate Rubins of NASA con­duct­ed a space­walk Sept. 1 to retract a ther­mal radi­a­tor, install the first of sev­er­al enhanced high def­i­n­i­tion cam­eras on the station’s truss and tight­en bolts on a joint that enables one of the station’s solar arrays to rotate. The space­walk was the sec­ond for Williams and Rubins in just 13 days, the fifth of Williams’ career and the sec­ond for Rubins. They installed the first Inter­na­tion­al Dock­ing Adapter on the sta­tion dur­ing their pre­vi­ous space­walk on Aug. 19. The adapter will allow new U.S. com­mer­cial crew vehi­cles to link up to the com­plex in the future.



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