CAPE CANAVERAL,Fla (AP)– NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their very first spacewalk with one another Thursday, leaving the International Space Station practically 8 months after relocating.
Commander Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore removed a busted antenna and cleaned the terminal’s exterior for proof of any type of germs that will nonetheless reside after introducing from Earth and operating away by way of vents.
After some first problem unlocking the cussed antenna, the astronauts finally tore it off just about 4 hours after bulging the hatch. Mission Control prompted them to search for any type of drifting elements from the antenna elimination.
During the work 260 miles (420 kilometers) up, Williams established a brand-new spacewalking doc for girls astronauts.
The set anticipated to stay merely every week after theyarrived at the space station last June But their new journey, Boeing’s Starliner tablet, got here throughout quite a bit problem that NASA selected to return it vacant.
That left each examination pilots, each retired Navy captains, in orbit until Space X can deliver them residence. That is not going to happen until late March or very early April, increasing their aim to 10 months on account of a Space X hold-up in introducing their substitutes.
Williams carried out a spacewalk 2 weeks in the past with another NASA astronaut. It important Wilmore’s very first time exterior this journey. Both acquired spacewalks all through earlier spaceport station stays.
With 9 spacewalks, Williams established a brand-new doc for women: one of the vital time invested spacewalking over an occupation. Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson held the previous doc of 60 hours and 21 minutes, constructed up over 10 spacewalks.
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Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
