Shane Kimbrough News
NASA says the trio will land in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 7:21 a.m. EDT (5:21 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA, who concluded their spacewalk at 2:33 p.m. EDT, successfully reconnected cables and electrical connections on the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3.
The piece of shielding the astronuats lost, protects against micrometeorite debris and was one of four pieces that Whitson and Kimbrough were installing over the spot left by a relocated docking port.
Two astronauts will conduct the second spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, March 30.
Two astronauts are spacewalking outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday for upgrading the orbiting lab for the arrival of future space crews.
The six-and-a-half hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin about 8 a.m. EDT, Friday, and NASA TV will provide complete coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT.
Expedition 50 astronauts will conduct spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, March 24 to prepare for the future arrival of US commercial crew spacecraft and upgrade station hardware.
SpaceX Dragon cargo craft's rendezvous to the space station was aborted early Wednesday morning after the spacecraft’s computers received an incorrect navigational update, triggering an automatic wave off.
Since this was Thomas Pesquet's first ever spacewalk, both astronauts celebrated the success in a fun way – by cheering each other with a high-five!
This is the 197th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.
The second phase of the spacewalk is going to be staged on Thursday, January 13 and will be once again performed by astronaut Shane Kimbrough and joining him this time, would be ESA astronaut/flight engineer Thomas Pesquet.
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA have completed the first of two power upgrade spacewalks on January 6, 2017.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson have completed the first spacewalk of 2017 outside International Space Station (ISS).
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA have begun their spacewalk outside International Space Station (ISS).
Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson will stow and replace power gear during the first 6.5 hour spacewalk.
Prior to each spacewalk, the new batteries will be robotically extracted from a pallet to replace 12 older nickel-hydrogen batteries through a series of robotic operations.
The photograph Pesquet shared on his official Twitter page says it all!
Their Christmas feast sounds yummy!
On October 25, Kimbrough initiated the most recent round of the Veggie experiment and for the first time in space, all six lettuce plants are growing simultaneously.
In a video released by NASA, American astronaut Shane Kimbrough gives us a show-and-tell of their menu for Thanksgiving this week.
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