U.S. astronauts Rick Mastracchio Mike Hopkins and the International Space Station (ISS) have successfully completed the first spacewalk to repair the damaged cooling system, as reported by the output NASA.La, broadcast live by the agency U.S., has started at 12.01 GMT.
After six hours of work have managed to remove the pump module having a broken valve flow, so have returned to the station with much of the work done.
Initially, this operation would not be done until Monday 23, but the good performance of Mastracchio and Hopkins has allowed Mission Control at NASA Houston give green light to work adelantasen and fully desmontasen the pump module.
Thus
could conclude replacement pump output Monday and not having to make another trek on Wednesday.
Watkata helped from the inside with a manipulator arm
Watkata Japanese Koichi has been commissioned to help from the inside with a manipulator arm.
fault reported on 11 December by the U.S. space agency has had serious consequences for the functioning of the ISS at the moment, but has forced suspend all nonessential operations research lab inside the outpost, orbiting 420 miles above Earth.
Mastracchio
addition, Hopkins Watkata and current ISS crew compose Russian Oleg Kotov, with the rank of major, Mikhail Tyurin and Sergey Ryazanskiy.
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