by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | International Space Station
Having been delivered on the Dragon CRS-18’s trunk, the new IDA-3 docking adapter was moved to the space station by the Dextre robot arm. IDA-3 was berthed at the PMA-3 docking poor with a soft berthed at 1100 GMT on 21 August. On the same day, two astronauts...
by David Todd | May 30, 2019 | Seradata News
At 1542 GMT on 29 May 2019 the hatch of the Pirs module was opened for the start of a six hour one minute long spacewalk involving two Russian cosmonauts. With five spacewalks under his belt, Oleg Kononenko was well placed to show his fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin...
by David Todd | Mar 25, 2019 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain successfully fitted new batteries to the power system of the International Space Station (ISS) during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) on 22 March. McClain led the six hour 39 minute long spacewalk as the EV1 command...
by David Todd | Dec 12, 2018 | International Space Station, Russia
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Propkopev made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module, which had had a hole apparently accidently drilled through it...
by Philip Hylands | Aug 20, 2018 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
At 1617 GMT on 15 August 2018, Cosmonauts Oleg Artemev and Sergey Prokopyev opened the hatch of the Pirs module on the International Space Station (ISS) to start a seven hour 46 minute spacewalk. The EVA ended at 0003 GMT on 16 August with the spacewalkers...