laitimes

Spacewalk six and a half hours Astronauts replace the space station antenna

author:Bright Net

Xinhua News Agency Two NASA astronauts completed a 6-hour and 30-minute spacewalk on the 2nd to replace a malfunctioning antenna on the International Space Station.

Marshburn and Barron dismantled a malfunctioning S-band radiocommunication antenna assembly and replaced it with a backup antenna. Fault antennas have been in use for more than 20 years. According to Reuters, Mashburn, a 61-year-old military doctor, has been stationed on the International Space Station twice and has been out of the cabin four times; Barron, 34, a naval submarine officer and nuclear engineer, is her first out of the cabin.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

Read on