Two astronauts on a spacewalk completed several maintenance tasks outside of the International Space Station despite getting off to a slow start due to a wardrobe malfunction.
Two astronauts from NASA and the European Space Agency worked on the exterior of the space station for 6 hours and 54 minutes on Wednesday. The extravehicular activity began at 8:32 a.m. The two crewmates switched their spacesuits to internal battery power.
The start of their planned activities was delayed by about an hour due to the difficulty in keeping Maurer's helmet-mounted video camera secure. The spare wire tie was used to hold down the helmet cam and associated light unit to make sure that Mission Control had a clear view of the spacewalk.
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Once that issue was solved, Maurer headed off to route a power and data cable for a camera to be replaced later in the spacewalk, while Chari prepared to ride on the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm from inside the space.
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The space station has six radiators, three on each side of its spine, which draw heat and keep the modules at a livable temperature. A pair of flex hoses connecting one of the port-side radiators to a valve module was leaking ammonia coolant, which led to a spacewalk to vent the hoses and remove them from use.
The hoses were repaired and returned to Earth in 2019. The primary task planned for this spacewalk was completed on Wednesday when Chari reinstalled the flex hoses.
After running the power and data cable for the new camera, Maurer moved over to install a jumper on a Columbus module and release a piece of the Bartolomeo science platform, which was attached to the European lab in 2020.
Mission Control instructed the spacewalkers to meet at the Port 3 (P3) truss segment to work on removing and replacing the older video camera with a high definition unit and wireless communications port. The cable was connected to the back of the new camera, bringing it online.
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Chair and Maurer used the old camera and other tools to get back to airlock. The spacewalk ended at 3:26 p.m. When re-pressurization of Quest began.
Since 1998, the International Space Station has been supported by the assembly, maintenance and upgrade of the EVA. It was Maurer's first spacewalk and his second, doubling his career total time working in the vacuum of space. She has been on the computer for 13 hours and 48 minutes.
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