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Oct. 18, 2023, 8:02 p.m. ET
Two astronauts scheduled to go out the airlock of the World House Station on Thursday will wait till later this yr after a coolant leak out of doors the ISS led to NASA to reshuffle the spacewalk agenda.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Eu House Company astronaut Andreas Mogensen had been scheduled to behavior a spacewalk this week.
Then again, after a coolant leak, challenge engineers are assessing the prerequisites out of doors the ISS and delaying the spacewalk till later this yr.
NASA stated a backup radiator at the ISS’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module started leaking coolant and stopped on Oct. 6, converting the surroundings across the ISS.
O’Hara and Mogensen had been scheduled to assemble microorganisms out of doors the ISS as a part of an experiment.
“The spacewalk date was once adjusted to permit engineers time beyond regulation to finish research of the coolant leak,” NASA stated. “The coolant isn’t poisonous or hazardous for the team, however professionals are discussing the way to highest stay small lines of the substance from entering some inner methods to steer clear of apparatus degradation over the years.”
Venture engineers are assessing the prerequisites out of doors the ISS and delaying the spacewalk till later this yr.NASA/Robert Markowitz
NASA stated a backup radiator at the ISS’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module started leaking coolant and stopped on Oct. 6, converting the surroundings across the ISS.NASA
This spacewalk shall be simply the fourth in historical past with a completely feminine team.NASA
The coolant leak additionally not on time every other spacewalk for O’Hara and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and is now scheduled for Oct. 30.
This shall be an extraordinary all-female spacewalk, handiest the fourth in historical past.
The primary by means of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch took place in 2019 after greater than twenty years of the ISS running in low-Earth orbit.
O’Hara and Moghbeli will behavior a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to take away electronics equipment and exchange sun array {hardware} at the out of doors of the ISS.
The primary all-female spacewalk by means of NASA astronauts took place in 2019 with Jessica Meir and Christina Koch.REUTERS
Two Russian cosmonauts also are scheduled to behavior a spacewalk in October. On Oct. 25, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will whole repairs duties for Roscosmos out of doors the ISS.
O’Hara and Mogensen will behavior the microorganism assortment right through Spacewalk 90 later this yr.
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