[ISS] Highlights from US Spacewalk on October 28th
- 9 years ago
Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA conducted a spacewalk Oct. 28 in U.S. spacesuits outside the Quest airlock to upgrade station systems – the first of two spacewalks planned for the duo in a nine-day period.
Kelly and Lindgren installed a thermal cover over the station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, began work to route cables in advance of the future arrival of an International Docking Adapter for commercial crew vehicles to dock to in the years ahead, and lubricated a number of components in one of two latching end effector on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The spacewalk was the first for both astronauts and the 189th in support of space station assembly and maintenance. Kelly and Lindgren will venture outside Quest again Nov. 6 to reconfigure cooling lines on the port truss of the station back to their original configuration, three years after the lines were plumbed in an effort to stop an ammonia leak.
Kelly and Lindgren installed a thermal cover over the station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, began work to route cables in advance of the future arrival of an International Docking Adapter for commercial crew vehicles to dock to in the years ahead, and lubricated a number of components in one of two latching end effector on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The spacewalk was the first for both astronauts and the 189th in support of space station assembly and maintenance. Kelly and Lindgren will venture outside Quest again Nov. 6 to reconfigure cooling lines on the port truss of the station back to their original configuration, three years after the lines were plumbed in an effort to stop an ammonia leak.