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It was the first spacewalk by NASA astronauts since an aborted one last summer. U.S. spacewalks were put on hold after water leaked into the airlock from the cooling loop for an astronaut's ...
The first EVA, in December 2024, set an apparent world record for spacewalk duration at 9 hours 6 minutes. Cai Xuzhe has now completed five EVAs, more than any other Chinese astronaut.
Both jobs went faster than expected, and 45 minutes into the spacewalk, the astronauts were a good 40 minutes ahead of schedule. Parmitano had moved on to his next worksite, a crevice where three ...
With 50 hours and 40 minutes, she is second on the list of total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut. Barry "Butch" Wilmore is an American astronaut and a former U.S. Navy test pilot ...
A Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut lifted off for an eight-month stay on the International Space Station — and that was just one of the three crewmates on Soyuz MS-27.
Just four years after the first human traveled to space, a Soviet cosmonaut and later an American astronaut took next steps that would be vital to exploration: They walked in space. A spacewalk ...
Back on Earth, their dramatic mission was gripping the globe, with people holding ... sun Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman used a stroke of ingenuity while out on a spacewalk in 2010.