About 320 km above the Earth floats the bag now through space. "Great work today," said a inspector in the soil Center in Houston, because despite the vicissitudes had the astronauts finished all the tasks planned. The external use on the International Space Station (ISS) lasted six hours and 52 minutes. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper repaired a defective solar sails, as their tool bag entglitt. "Oh, great," escaped the U.S. astronaut, when the mishap happened.
The loss caused but not for major complications - because Stefanyshyn-Piper colleague Steve Bowen had a replacement tool bag with him, which they then exploited jointly. The "Endeavor" was in the night on Monday docked at the ISS. On the first of four planned space walks, astronauts cleaned both the swivel one of the three solar sails of the station and brought in spare parts to the ISS. The astronauts also had an empty nitrogen reservoir in the "Endeavor" transported, with whom she will soon return to Earth. To prepare the foreign deployment had Stefanyshyn-Piper and Bowen the night in the Dekompressionskabine spent the ISS.
The fluctuation in the astronaut-WG is big: 167 astronauts from 15 nations visited the space station already. By 2010, its final size from 108 to 88 meters reached - which is about the size of a sports center. Future should take three astronauts currently six permanently on the space station can reside.
The fluctuation in the astronaut-WG is big: 167 astronauts from 15 nations visited the space station already. By 2010, its final size from 108 to 88 meters reached - which is about the size of a sports center. Future should take three astronauts currently six permanently on the space station can reside.
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