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    Crews Wrap Week; Managers Provide Starliner, Spacewalk, and Cargo Updates

    Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on NASA's Crew Flight Test approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 263 miles above Quebec, Canada, on June 6.

    The Expedition 71 crew members packed a U.S. cargo craft, cleaned up the International Space Station, studied futuristic piloting techniques, and conducted eye exams on Friday. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts spent the end of their workweek reconfiguring a space botany facility. Robotics controllers are scheduled to detach the Cygnus space freighter from the …

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    Ongoing Spacewalk Preps, Science, and Plumbing Keep Crews Busy

    NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (at center) pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers (far left) Mike Barratt and Tracy C. Dyson (far right), both NASA astronauts, in their spacesuits.

    Preparations continue for the next spacewalk at the International Space Station planned for next week. In the meantime, the orbital residents are rebuilding advanced plumbing gear and servicing video and science hardware. Beginning around 8:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 26 NASA instructed crews aboard the space station to shelter in their respective spacecraft as …

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    NASA Collins xEVAS Update 

    The space station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during its departure and flyaround on Nov. 8, 2021.

    In 2022 and 2023, NASA awarded Collins Aerospace two task orders under the agency’s xEVAS (Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services) contract. The first task order was to deliver a next generation spacesuit and spacewalking system for potential use on the International Space Station with a base value of $97.2 million. The second task order was to advance additional …

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    Cargo, Science, and Spacewalk Preps Fill Station’s Day

    The first rays of an orbital sunrise reflect off the International Space Station's roll-out solar arrays that overshadow and augment the orbital outpost's main solar arrays.

    Six NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station had a day filled with cargo packing, orbital plumbing, and a spacewalk conference. The orbital outpost’s three cosmonauts from Roscosmos spent their day testing a 3D printer, collecting microbial air samples, and servicing life support gear. Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, …

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    Crews Conduct Spacewalk Review, Physics Research, and Orbital Plumbing

    Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is pictured in her spacesuit prior to the start of a spacewalk that ended early after her suit experienced a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit.

    The nine residents aboard the International Space Station comprising both the Expedition 71 and NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test teams had a day filled with spacesuit checks, advanced microgravity research, and orbital lab maintenance. NASA Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt kept up their spacewalk preparations following the early end to Monday’s excursion. …

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    U.S. Spacewalk Update

    NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt are pictured training for spacewalks at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Bouyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas.

    NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt are back inside the International Space Station after U.S. spacewalk 90 ended early Monday due to a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit on Dyson’s spacesuit. The crew members were not in any danger as result of the leak. Dyson and Barratt set their suits to battery power at …

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    Spacewalk Cancelled Due to Spacesuit Cooling Unit Water Leak

    NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps (center) is pictured assisting NASA astronauts Mike Barratt (left) and Tracy C. Dyson (right) inside the Quest airlock. Credit: NASA TV

    U.S. spacewalk 90 was cancelled Monday at the International Space Station due to a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit on NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson’s spacesuit. Dyson and Mike Barratt set their suits to battery power at 8:46 a.m. EDT and opened the hatch to the space station’s Quest airlock before …

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    NASA Astronauts Preparing for Spacewalk Live on NASA TV

    Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt, both NASA astronauts, pose for preflight portraits at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

    NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+, NASA Television, YouTube, the NASA app, and the agency’s website as two astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin after the crew sets their suits to internal battery power ahead of exiting the airlock. The spacewalk is set to …

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    NASA, Boeing Adjust Timeline for Starliner Return

    An aurora streams below Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked to the forward port on the Harmony module as the International Space Station soared 266 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia.

    NASA and Boeing leadership are adjusting the return to Earth of the Starliner Crew Flight Test spacecraft with agency astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from the International Space Station. The move off Wednesday, June 26, deconflicts Starliner’s undocking and landing from a series of planned International Space Station spacewalks while allowing mission teams time …

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    Spacewalking Team Relaxes Ahead of Monday Excursion

    The seven Expedition 71 crew members gather with the two Crew Flight Test members for a team portrait aboard the space station. In the front from left are, Suni Williams, Oleg Kononenko, and Butch Wilmore. Second row from left are, Alexander Grebenkin, Tracy C. Dyson, and Mike Barratt. In the back are, Nikolai Chub, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick.

    Relaxation and a host of lab maintenance tasks filled the end of the day for the dual crews living and working aboard the International Space Station. Four NASA astronauts, all Expedition 71 Flight Engineers, are taking Friday and Saturday off in space following several days of spacesuit checks and spacewalking procedure reviews. Tracy C. Dyson …

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