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NASA Approves June 1 Spacewalk
Houston TX (SPX) May 23, 2006 NASA announced Tuesday it has approved a June 1 spacewalk by the International Space Station crew, and the agency will broadcast the event live on NASA Television. The five and a half hour spacewalk will begin at 6:40 p.m. Eastern Time. It will be the first of two spacewalks for station commander Pavel Vinogradov and flight engineer Jeff Williams during their six-month mission. Clad in Russian Orlan space suits, Vinogradov and Williams will exit the station from the Pirs airlock. They will install a new valve on the Zvezda Service Module for the station's Russian oxygen-generation system. They also will collect experiments and install a new TV camera on the station's rail car system. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Space Station at NASA Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
Williams Tests SPHERES Aboard Space Station
Houston TX (SPX) May 21, 2006Jeff Williams, the International Space Station's current flight engineer, flew a miniature spacecraft around the pressurized Destiny module last week, NASA reported Friday. He was testing the flight control and autonomous docking characteristics that could be useful for eventually flying multiple full-scale spacecraft in formation. |
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