Tag: International Space Station
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Hurriedly planned ‘contingency’ spacewalk on tap Tuesday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Space station commander Peggy Whitson and astronaut Jack Fischer are set for a two-and-a-half hour spacewalk Tuesday, a quickly-planned excursion to replace a recently installed external computer that failed Saturday. The 50-pound data relay box, known as a multiplexer-demultiplexer, or MDM, is one of two “tier 2” command…
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Interview: Astronaut Mike Massimino looks back at Hubble – and looks ahead to space tourism
Astronaut Mike Massimino, who was on the final Space Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, marvels at what Hubble has accomplished. (GeekWire Photo / Geof Wheelwright) NEW ORLEANS – It’s apparently not enough that Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut, a best-selling author and an engineering professor. He’s also raring to go back…
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Astronauts complete shortened spacewalk outside International Space Station
Astronaut Jack Fischer on Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer put on spacesuits Friday and headed outside the International Space Station for several repair and maintenance tasks, but the duo only completed part of their originally planned work after a leaky cooling umbilical delayed the start of their spacewalk.…
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Astronauts complete shortened spacewalk outside International Space Station
Astronaut Jack Fischer on Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer put on spacesuits Friday and headed outside the International Space Station for several repair and maintenance tasks, but the duo only completed part of their originally planned work after a leaky cooling umbilical delayed the start of their spacewalk.…
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Water leak forces NASA to scale down 200th spacewalk, but Job 1 gets done
A small water leak cropped up in one of the hoses designed to keep NASA astronaut Jack Fischer’s spacesuit cool while he waited to begin today’s 200th spacewalk on the International Space Station. That had a domino effect on the preparations, drawing down battery power and forcing NASA to trim back the time allotted to…
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First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong
As NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson looks on, crewmate Jack Fischer jokes that “you can probably see into my pores” during the first’ever live 4K UHD video feed from the International Space Station. (NASA via YouTube) NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition…
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In video call to space station, President Donald Trump calls for speeding up trips to Mars
President Donald Trump chats with astronauts on the International Space Station from his desk in the White House’s Oval Office, flanked by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on the left and Ivanka Trump on the right. (White House via YouTube) Humans on Mars by 2024? President Donald Trump set that time frame today, almost certainly in…
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Video: Trump call to station
Donald Trump calls the International Space Station from the Oval Office, offering congratulations to Expedition 51 commander Peggy Whitson on breaking the U.S. astronaut endurance record.
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President Trump calls International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION President Trump called the International Space Station Monday for a videochat watched by thousands of school kids, congratulating commander Peggy Whitson on becoming America’s most experienced astronaut and jokingly promising to get Americans to Mars “during my first term or, at worst, during my second term.” Joined by…
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Video: OA-7 Cygnus freighter arrives at its orbital destination
The International Space Station crew reaches out with the Canadian robotic arm and grabs the free-flying Cygnus OA-7 commercial cargo ship filled with supplies, food and science gear. See earlier OA-7 Cygnus coverage. Our Atlas archive.