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The International Space Station: astronaut EVA

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: e-is018-10300

Image Size 300 DPI: 26 * 17 cm

18 Nov. 2008- Astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-126 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 52-minute spacewalk, Bowen and astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame), mission specialist, worked to clean and lubricate part of the station's starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ) and to remove two of SARJ's 12 trundle bearing assemblies. The spacewalkers also removed a depleted nitrogen tank from a stowage platform on the outside of the complex and moved it into Endeavour's cargo bay. They also moved a flex hose rotary coupler from the shuttle to the station stowage platform, as well as removing some insulation blankets from the common berthing mechanism on the Kibo laboratory. 

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2008 - ASTRONAUT - ATMOSPHERE - BOWEN STEVE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EVA - EXPEDITION 18 - EXTRA VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRA-VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY - HUMAN - INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - ISS - MAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACE STATION - STS-126 -