(The agency is banking on the ISS partnership being extended to 2030, from 2024, to allow time for those replacements to get up and running.)
He expressed worry that NASA-funded commercial stations will not be ready in time to fill gaps in low Earth orbit research. (Image credit: NASA)Ī former Trump-era NASA administrator says Congress needs to do more to have commercial space stations ready in time.ĭuring a livestream on Sunday, former chief Jim Bridenstine, who led NASA between April 2018 and January 2021, said Congress is moving too slowly on approving replacements to the International Space Station (ISS), especially given Russia is now saying it will pull out after 2024 to focus on building a Russian-owned space station. Russia controls six modules aboard the International Space Station. Read more: Watch Russian spacewalkers test European robotic arm on the space station Friday They have removed a protective cover and are now working on a control panel to get the arm set up after its first ground control test a few days ago. The duo are configuring the European Robotic Arm ahead of operations. They were referring to powerful forest fires raging in California amid heat warnings that are forcing evacuations nearby Los Angeles.Įxpedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev and flight engineer Denis Matveev are finishing up tasks they could not complete in August after a spacewalk was cut short due to a spacesuit power issue. (He was speaking in Russian the English interpretation came through NASA.) EDT (1520 GMT), as the extra vehicular activity approaches its second hour. That is impressive," one of the spacewalkers commented shortly before 11:20 a.m. Two Russian cosmonauts commented on the powerful forest fires raging in the western United States from their vantage point during a spacewalk at the International Space Station. T15:30:32.081Z Russian cosmonauts see forest fires from space Read more: Russian spacewalkers test European robotic arm on the space station Friday The cosmonauts concluded several configuration tasks for the European Robotic Arm and in one of several get-ahead activities, extended the Strela crane boom between the Poisk and FGB modules on the Russian side of the ISS. (The transmission was in Russian interpretation was available in English on NASA Television.) "You completed more than you set out to do! Very productive," a representative from Moscow Mission Control told the cosmonauts just after they closed the hatch. 17 spacewalk cut short due to a power issue in a spacesuit the spacesuits, incidentally, worked perfectly this time during the 7 hour, 47 minute spacewalk. The duo blazed through the remaining tasks left over from an Aug. NASA is concluding coverage of an International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk that saw a robotic arm and a big boom being manipulated in orbit.Įxpedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev and flight engineer Denis Matveev easily finished and exceeded their assigned spacewalk tasks during a 7 hour, x minute that began at 9:25 a.m. T21:18:49.082Z International Space Station spacewalk concludes
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