mon 21 feb 2015, 18:38

Emergency surgery to space station successful

MOSCOW/HOUSTON –

Two American astronauts have Monday a spoedreparatie carried out to the exterior of the International Space station (ISS). Scott Kelly and Tim Copra, they had special suits wear for a spacewalk, because a cart with a robotic arm, it was blocked by another carriage and, therefore, 10 inches is wrong.

Photo: NASA

That problem had to be no later than this Wednesday have been fixed, because then a Russian transport ship arrives with goods. The job itself was within a quarter of an hour cleared: it was a matter of a brake loosening. In total, Kelly and Copra about 3.5 hours outside. When they still were doing a spacewalk, they perform advance preparatory work for new components in the future, on the ISS, to be installed.

Normally spacewalks for months in preparation. This time it was a matter of days.