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    After a Saturday Spacewalk, an Emergency Drill and Hardware Maintenance Fills the Crew’s Schedule

    On March 13, 2021, NASA spacewalker and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover works to route cables and complete tasks that were deferred from previous spacewalks during this year’s fifth spacewalk in support of space station maintenance. Credits: NASA

    After a weekend that included the 237th spacewalk in support of assembly and maintenance for the International Space Station, featuring spacewalkers and NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins, the Expedition 64 crew members got back to the business of science, switching out hardware and working around a comprehensive emergency drill on Monday. Running through the emergency drill, …

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    NASA Astronauts Complete Year’s Fifth Spacewalk at Station

    NASA astronauts (from left) Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will conduct their third spacewalk together on Saturday morning.

    NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins concluded their spacewalk at 3:01 p.m. EST, after 6 hours and 47 minutes. In the fifth spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts successfully completed tasks to service the station’s cooling system and communications gear. The duo began their work on the station’s …

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    Astronauts Power Up Suits, Spacewalk Begins

    NASA astronauts (from left) Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will conduct their third spacewalk together on Saturday morning.

    NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to service the station’s cooling system and communications gear. The pair switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:14 a.m. EST to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about six and a half hours. Watch the spacewalk …

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    NASA TV is Live as Astronauts Get Ready for Spacewalk

    NASA astronauts (from left) Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will conduct their third spacewalk together on Saturday morning.

    NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 64 are preparing to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk expected to begin around 7:30 a.m. EST and last about …

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    NASA TV Broadcasts Saturday Morning Spacewalk

    NASA astronauts (from left) Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will conduct their third spacewalk together on Saturday morning.

    NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins are scheduled to exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock Saturday to complete tasks that were deferred from earlier spacewalks to allow for the successful installation of modification kits in preparation for future solar array upgrades. The pair will set their spacesuits to battery power about 7:30 a.m. …

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    Sound Checks, Eye Scans as Crew Preps for Saturday Spacewalk

    NASA spacewalkers (front left) Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins are pictured with (rear left) astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi before the start of spacewalk on Jan. 27, 2021.

    The Expedition 64 crew is wrapping up final preparations before two astronauts exit the International Space Station for a maintenance spacewalk on Saturday morning. The orbital residents also measured lab sound levels and checked their crewmates’ eyes to end the workweek. NASA spacewalkers Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will take part in their third spacewalk …

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    Worm Observations, Eye Checks as Weekend Spacewalk Approaches

    The Last Quarter Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the station orbited over the Indian Ocean.

    The Expedition 64 crew had a busy science day observing worms, readying small satellites for deployment, and conducting vision tests. Two astronauts are also pressing ahead with preparations for the third spacewalk in two weeks at the International Space Station. Tiny worms were launched to the orbiting lab in February to study how weightlessness affects …

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    Spacesuit Checks During Space Research and Russian Maintenance

    NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover work on the new NanoRacks Bishop airlock.

    Two astronauts are focusing on preparations for this weekend’s spacewalk as the rest of the Expedition 64 crew keeps up research and maintenance on the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineers Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins checked on the U.S. spacesuits today they will wear during a spacewalk scheduled for 7:30 a.m. EST on Saturday. …

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    Saturday Spacewalk Set as Crew Works Space Gardening

    Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover works during a spacewalk on Jan. 27, 2021 to set up the space station for future solar array upgrades.

    The Expedition 64 astronauts are gearing up for the third spacewalk in two weeks at the International Space Station. The orbital residents also fit in a variety of space agriculture studies and orbital maintenance tasks on their busy schedule today. NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will partner up for their third spacewalk together …

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    Astronauts Relax as Station Science Command Celebrates 20 Years

    Payload controllers are pictured working inside the Payload Operations Integration Center, the science command post for the space station located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

    Five astronauts from the Expedition 64 crew are relaxing today after supporting a pair of spacewalks last week. The two cosmonauts from Roscosmos were on duty running science and maintaining systems in the International Space Station’s Russian segment. NASA Flight Engineer Kate Rubins led both spacewalks to install modification kits to ready the orbital lab …

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