Cosmonauts attach experiments to new lab
Houston, Texas Two spacewalkinging astronauts hung up science experiments on the outside of the infinite station’s new research laboratory Friday and jammed up a low gyroscope for next week’s shuttle ride home.
It was the third and final spacewalk for Atlantis’ spacemen, who came at the international space station well a hebdomad ago.
Rex Walheim and Stanley Love connected a packet of sun-gazing instruments to the European Columbus laboratory as well as a Brobdingnagian box incorporating eight experiments to discover micrometeorite strikes and measure space radiation syndrome, among former things.
As they aquiline up the solar experiments, French spaceman Leopold Eyharts informed them that the joined shuttle-station was only about to go through over Europe after seafaring across the Atlantic.
“But to allow you know that you are finish the installing of the first European warhead on Columbus piece we are getting over Europe in the opposite way of Christopher Columbus,” Eyharts radioeded from inside.
The piece of work — along with the remotion of the bad space station gyro and the add of Columbus bannisters — used up more than six hour, and more tasks for them. By then, the spacewalkers were acquiring tired and implored off on at least one job. They likewise did non have clocked to visit a packed solar rotary joint on the infinite station.
Earlier going back inside, the spacemen examined a small chip in a balusters near the infinite station’s hatch. Love patched the scrap during Monday’s spacewalk, and Mission Control nicknamed it Love Crater. Watch spacewalk hundreds of stat mis above Earth “
Walheim put on a spare overglove and fretted the fingerbreadths over the flake to realise if the material would snag; then he made the same affair using a baseball mitt wrapped about an instrument. Astronauts have pulled their baseball gloves on old outings, and NASA cherished to realize if this chip power be a perpetrator.
Walheim informated the flake felt rough at first, but looked to acquire smoother with all the friction and cleansing.
At the very end of their 71/2-hour spacewalk, the spacewalkers wished a felicitous birthday to cosmonaut Leland Melvin, who sour 44 Friday and runned the automaton arm on that they did work.
Between now and Monday’s leaving of Atlantis, the 10 spacefarers hope to finish as much work inside the Columbus science lab as possible. National Aeronautics and Space Administration added a 13th twenty to the birdie flight so the spacemen could do but that.
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