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(CNN)-- Things didn't go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the ... is full of metal shavings, a sure sign that metal is grinding on metal.
The spacewalk was intended to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit, which is designed to keep the astronauts ... 10 minutes. During that time, he tested the suit’s mobility while holding special ...
The rare pictures show the ISS while NASA astronauts were out on a spacewalk. The station crossed three sets of sunspots, including one big enough to swallow two Earths. An astrophotographer has ...
During the spacewalk, one of the shields was inadvertently lost. The loss posed no immediate danger to the astronauts and Kimbrough and Whitson went on to successfully install the remaining ...
A view from Tiangong’s robotic arm shows Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong conducting a spacewalk outside ... performed exceptionally well during the extravehicular mission.
An Italian astronaut, Luca Parmitano, nearly drowned during the station’s last spacewalk in July after ... that should have picked up the first signs of excess moisture” and were prepared ...
One of the astronauts on the spacewalk, Bob Behnken, recently made headlines when he took off in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.
The craft carrying astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian cosmonauts docked with the space station. They're scheduled for an eight-month stay.
During Friday's spacewalk, the two astronauts received a call from the White House. While speaking to Donald Trump, Meir said that “we hope that we can provide an inspiration to everybody ...
According to Space.com, Williams now has 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalking, surpassing former astronaut Peggy Whitson, who had 60 hours and 21 minutes. On this most recent spacewalk ...