07-10-14 15:24 h – Source: Reuters
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A photograph published from ISS by NASA. © AFP
Two astronauts afternoon began a spacewalk. The German Alexander Gerst and the American Reid Wiseman left around 14:30 (Dutch time) the International Space Station. The complex flew more than 400 miles above the nocturnal Pacific. “Good, it’s dark outside,” said Barley shortly before he went out
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It is intended that Barley and Wiseman 6.5 hours outside continue to carry out some small. maintenance They move a broken cooling pump and they are working on a robotic arm of the complex. In order to do that safely in a vacuum have Barley and Wiseman ad nauseam practiced who does what when. The European Space Agency calls it a ‘precise choreography. “
Barley is the ninth European to make a spacewalk. The Dutchman Andre Kuipers does not belong to that group.
The trips into space are not without dangers. The last European spacewalker, Italian Luca Parmitano, last year nearly drowned in his space when a water leak. He could see and hear almost nothing and struggled to bring himself. Safety “The water covered my nose, a horrible feeling I aggravations by shaking in a vain attempt to get the water. Away with my head The top of my helmet is full of water and I do not even know if I with the next breath my lungs fill with air or liquid, “wrote Parmitano it later
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