This week in 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, and John W. Young, commander, landed on the lunar surface.
extravehicular activity, shows Young retrieving tools from the Lunar Roving Vehicle’s Hand
Two Expedition 50 astronauts are in final preparations for the first of two power maintenance spacewalks that starts Friday at 7 a.m. EST. Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson will stow and replace power gear during the first 6.5 hour spacewalk. The duo will work near the solar arrays on the starboard truss segment. The …
done by controllers on the ground remotely using the Canadarm2 robotic arm and hand
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is in its final week attached to the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Meanwhile, robotics experts on the ground and the crew aboard the lab are working a wide variety of science activities today. The Dragon space freighter has nearly completed its cargo mission to replenish the orbital laboratory after …
being remotely installed outside the station today using a specialized robotic hand
Manned Space Flight History
Labor/Time: 2 persons, 1 hour Equipment/Tools: Forklift or hand truck, pliers and
The four-volume memoir of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian. Series Editor: Asif Siddiqi
the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand
The most promising method for detecting primordial gravitational waves lies in the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB. A
With my calibration in hand, I will then produce foreground-separated polarization
Expedition 50 astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet are ready for their mission’s second spacewalk that starts Friday at 7 a.m. EST. The duo will wrap up power maintenance work to connect new lithium-ion batteries and install adapter plates. Kimbrough and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson started that work last Friday during a six-hour, 32-minute spacewalk. …
controllers have been remotely-operating the Canadarm2 robotic arm and Dextre robotic hand
On Jan. 27, 1967, with the planned launch of the first Apollo mission to carry a crew just 25 days away, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward
Room technicians, Grissom entered the capsule and took his position in the left hand
On Jan. 27, 1967, with the planned launch of the first Apollo mission to carry a crew just 25 days away, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward
Room technicians, Grissom entered the capsule and took his position in the left hand
NASA’s Gemini IX mission was another step in developing technology for future spaceflights from Apollo to the agency’s Journey to Mars. But this mission
“It came right off my hand. The Velcro’s not strong enough.”
