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    NASA Astronauts Complete Their First Spacewalk

    NASA Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren

    NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren ended their spacewalk at 3:19 p.m. EDT with the repressurization of the U.S. Quest airlock, having completed most of the major tasks planned for their excursion outside the International Space Station. Kelly and Lindgren applied a thermal cover on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer; applied grease to a number …

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    Dark Matter Experiment Covered in Thermal Blanket

    Astronaut Scott Kelly

    Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes into today’s spacewalk, astronaut Kjell Lindgren successfully placed a thermal cover over the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) outside the International Space Station. First launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in May 2011, the AMS is collecting and analyzing billions of cosmic ray events and identifying dark matter. Scott Kelly …

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    Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren Begin Spacewalk Early

    Spacewalkers Move into Airlock

    NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:03 a.m. EDT, signifying the start of today’s planned 6-hour, 30-minute spacewalk. NASA Television is broadcasting the spacewalk at www.nasa.gov/nasatv. Kelly is wearing a spacesuit with red stripes and is designated EV1. His helmet camera displays the number 18. Lindgren’s spacesuit is white …

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    Watch Spacewalk With Kelly and Lindgren Live on NASA TV Now

    Computer Rendering of Spacewalk

    NASA Television is providing live coverage of today’s U.S. spacewalk from the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:10 a.m. EDT, unless the crew is ready to begin earlier, and will last about 6 hours and 30 minutes. Watch the spacewalk live at www.nasa.gov/nasatv. Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight …

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    Watch First-Time Spacewalkers Venture Outside the Space Station Oct. 28

    NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins

    U.S. astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will venture outside the space station’s Quest airlock on Wednesday, Oct. 28 to perform a spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance, 189th of the space station. The six-and-a-half hour walk will be streamed live beginning at 6:30 am E.T. You can watch the spacewalk live …

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    Astronauts Complete Preps for First of Two Upgrade Spacewalks

    NASA Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren

    NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will begin the first of two spacewalks Wednesday morning to service and upgrade the International Space Station. The duo have completed reviewing their procedures, preparing their U.S. spacesuits and organizing their tools inside the U.S. Quest airlock. NASA Television will cover the spacewalk live beginning at 6:30 a.m. …

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    Crew Gets Ready for Spacewalk on Wednesday

    Astronaut Kjell Lindgren

    Two astronauts are getting ready for a six-hour, 30-minute spacewalk Wednesday morning. They and the rest of the Expedition 45 crew also worked on international science and laboratory maintenance. Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren are preparing for two spacewalks on Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 to upgrade and service the International Space …

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    Astronauts Tailor Spacesuits as Crew Explores Human Research

    U.S. Spacesuit

    The crew started their day checking out Cubesat gear and researching a wide variety of science to benefit humanity on and off Earth. Later, two astronauts tried on their spacesuits to ensure a good fit before next week’s spacewalk. Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren were in the Kibo lab module Thursday morning …

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    Crew Readying Spacewalk Gear and Studying Life Science

    Kimiya Yui, Kjell Lindgren and Sergey Volkov

    The International Space Station crew is gearing up for a couple of spacewalks to service and upgrade the orbital laboratory. Meanwhile, the crew is also working long-term life science to improve life on Earth and in future space crews. The U.S. Quest airlock is getting busy as NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren get …

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    Crew Works Spacesuit and Tool Preps and Life Science Experiments

    NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos

    The deployment of two Cubesats is on hold after they failed to eject a couple of weeks ago. Also, more spacesuit servicing and biomedical investigations took place today. The deployer mechanism that ejected 14 of 16 Cubesats is back inside the Kibo laboratory module’s airlock. Two of the Cubesats did not deploy due to a …

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