“That was pretty easy”, Commander Scott Kelly said, according to a live broadcast of the spacewalk on NASA television, after he hit the stuck brake handle and got the auto moving again.
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The goal of their space walk is to mend a key component of the ISS’ machinery, the mobile transporter, a rail vehicle that moves a robotic arm along the length of the station.
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They moved the rail auto the four inches it needed to slide to reach a latching point. Progress is expected to arrive at the space station at 5:31 a.m. EST Wednesday.
If the transporter was not locked in place, vibrations from the docking could damage the space station’s structure. Kopra routed an Ethernet cable that ultimately will connect to a Russian laboratory module.
The habitable artificial satellite, which has been orbiting at a height of about 400 kilometers above the surface of earth, flies very close to the United Kingdom quite regularly, so it is not hard to spot the space station.
It was the third for Kelly, who is nine months into a yearlong mission and the second for Kopra, who arrived at the station on December 15 for his second space mission.
Finished with their work, the astronauts returned inside the space station more than three hours after the start of their spacewalk.
“This is a team effort”, Kelly said to mission control.
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Total station EVA time by 122 astronauts and cosmonauts representing nine nations now stands at 1,195 hours and 20 minutes, or 49.8 days.
