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See a First-Person View of the First Private Spacewalk
On Tuesday, September 10th, at 5:23 a.m. EST (03:23 p.m. PST), the Polaris Dawn mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space…
Lunar Astronauts Will Need Easy Walking Trails Around the Moon's South Pole
An international team of scientists used topographical data of the Moon's southern polar region to determine the optimal routes for…
Spacewalk Cut Short, Cosmonaut Told to “Drop Everything” and Go Back Into the Space Station
Russian and US flight controllers decided to cut short a spacewalk by two cosmonauts outside the International Space Station yesterday…
Spacesuits are Leaking Water and NASA is Holding off any Spacewalks Until They can Solve the Problem
NASA's spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility units - EMUs for short - were designed and built for spacewalks…
Chinese Astronauts Take Their First Spacewalk Outside the new Station
Spacewalks are a relatively rare occurrence, and they normally draw at least a moderate amount of media coverage. So when…
2 US Astronauts Conduct Unplanned, Rapidly Executed Contingency Space Walk on Space Station
In the space of just 3 days, a pair of NASA astronauts conducted an unplanned and rapidly executed contingency space…
Space Station Drama After Vital Micrometeorite Shielding Floats Away
This week, astronauts conducting a spacewalk had to perform an impromptu patch-up job when one of the ISS' shields broke…
Watch Live: 180th Spacewalk for the International Space Station
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev are working outside at the International Space Station…
UPDATE: Spacewalkers Zip Through Tasks To Fix Broken Computer
UPDATE, 11:42 a.m. EDT: Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson finished their spacewalk in just 1 hour and 36 minutes, nearly…
How Did That Spacesuit Water Leak Spread? New Video Has Clues
As NASA investigates how astronaut Luca Parmitano's spacesuit filled with water during a spacewalk two weeks ago, a new video…