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NASA astronauts at ISS spacewalks to finish intensive three days mega-cable installation job

Mar 2, 2015

Two U.S. astronauts of NASA at the International Space Station completed a three-day cable job on Sunday; successfully routing hundreds of power and data lines for new crew capsule outside their station. It was...

Two astronauts completes first round of spacewalk to prepare for commercial spacecrafts

Cody Gash

Feb 23, 2015

Innovation

The ISS is preparing to host the soon to be introduced commercial manned spacecrafts by SpaceX and Boeing. Two astronauts completed the installation of cables necessary for docking the spacecrafts on Saturday. ...

Spacewalking astronaut duo repair ISS after a 6 hour space sojourn

Amanda

Oct 8, 2014

Innovation

As a part of their maiden spacewalk, NASA astronauts Reid Wideman and German Alexander Gerst, both Americans, successfully relocated a failed ammonia pump module to an external stowage platform. In a space sojo...

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