18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
..., a total of 227 astronauts and cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk, but only 15 of them have been women (14 of ... say then, that the first all female spacewalk is therefore long overdue. The spacewalk, officially known as an extra-vehicular activity...
June 2018
Striding through space
... Shuttle flights and today on the International Space Station (ISS). This small propulsive backpack is worn during spacewalks, and would be used to return to the ISS in an emergency. To date, it has never been required. Bruce McCandless wearing...
06 July 2020
Russia and Space Adventures sign contract to offer first tourist spacewalk
...they can now get outside and go for a spacewalk too. In a recent announcement, Russian rocket company... the mission one of the spaceflight participants will go on a spacewalk from the ISS Russian Segment together with a professional Russian cosmonaut,”...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... share their awe and wonder with the rest of us. Astronaut and spacewalker, Al Worden was the command module pilot of Apollo 15 and he.... Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, was also the first person to create art in space...
19 August 2016
It's a Lovely Day for a Spacewalk: New IDA Installation Nears Completion
...Station astronauts Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams are currently in spacewalk and are expected to remain outside of the ISS for...two hours and twenty-two minutes. This will be the fourth spacewalk for Jeff Williams, the first for Kate Rubins, and the ...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
...availability on the station. McClain learned during her first spacewalk that a medium-size hard upper torso – essentially ...Space_Station upgrades, it’s safer & faster to change spacewalker assignments than reconfigure spacesuits." Still, given the ...
