A yoke of tiny , squishy astronauts brave the abrasive vacuity of infinite to set up a new communications scheme on to the International Space Station . The new organization is part ofreconfiguring the stationin preparation for the comer of distance taxis from the commercial crew program .
Top image : Astronaut Butch Wimore is dwarfed by the massive starboard corbel of the International Space Station . Credit : NASA / Terry Virts
The camera does n’t do it justice – floating in space , appear down on creation , seeing Modern color shades.#spacewalkpic.twitter.com / or8godwZSO
— Terry Virts ( @AstroTerry)March 1 , 2015
Astronauts Terry Virts and Barry “ Butch ” Wilmore successfully completed the third of atrioofspacewalkson Sunday to groom the International Space Station for thecommercial crew political platform . This spacewalk focused on installing a new communications system .
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pop out at6:52 a.m. ESTon March 1 , 2015 , the spacewalk was the short yet at just5 hour and 38 second , and scant than the in the beginning planned 6 hours and 45 minute . Here ’s an invigoration of the stand for spacewalk plan :
The chief labor for this spacewalk was to install aCommon Communications for claver Vehicles(C2V2 ) system , a new scheme for standardizing sound and video communication with chat ballistic capsule .
Astronaut Terry Virts do work outside the Quest airlock . simulacrum credit : NASA TV
Theinstallation requiredadding a pair of new booms with feeler and retro - reflectors , connecting the C2V2 to the GPS and feeler systems , and tend about 120 meters of cable length along the space station truss . In addition totheir assigned To - Do list , the astronauts managed to once again carry out a incentive task , retrieving a equipment masking bag from outside the place .
Astronaut Butch Wilmore pass a overseas telegram to Terry Virts after set up the starboard feeler . figure of speech acknowledgment : NASA / Terry Virts
Virts reported weewee in his helmetafter the previous spacewalk when solicit back in to the space place atmospherical organisation .
Virts routes cable along Truss 3 with a reassuringly dry mind . Image acknowledgment : NASA TV
The water was attributed to sublimator water carryover , when residual water supply condenses during repressurization . Even so both astronauts made periodic reports of dry helmet term to ground control during this spacewalk .
Each pocketbook carry 30 meters of cable , none of which is sluttish to manipulate with spacesuit gloves . epitome credit : NASA / Terry Virts
This was the final spacewalk in theplanned reconfiguration trio . All job on the casual To - Do lists were dispatch on schedule .
Mission Accomplished – 3#spacewalks , 800 ' of cable , 4 antennas , 3 optical maser reflectors , 1 greased robotic arm.pic.twitter.com/MJ7NjNnjqf
After the spacewalk , spaceman Terry Virts memorialise 50 yr of spacwalking story .
Butch Wilmore
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