US Space agency NASA on Saturday shared a video of Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.
Taking to the Twitter, NASA posted the 1-minute video showing Mike Hopkins leaving the space station to join his colleague Victor Glover. Along the video, the space agency in the post said, "Caught in action! Check out @Astro_illini leaving or "egressing" the @Space_Station. Already outside the hatch, he is joining @AstroVicGlover for the duo's second spacewalk together. - Glover's or "Ike's" suit has red stripes - Hopkins' or" Hopper's" suit has no stripes."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Caught in action! Check out <a href="https://news.abplive.com/technology/nasa-releases-first-audio-from-mars-perseverance-rover-landing-video-1445495">@Astro_illini</a> leaving or “egressing” the <a >@Space_Station</a>. Already outside the hatch, he is joining <a >@AstroVicGlover</a> for the duo’s second spacewalk together. <br><br>🔴 – Glover's or “Ike's” suit has red stripes<br>⚪️ – Hopkins' or” Hopper's” suit has no stripes <a >pic.twitter.com/203mdc4KUi</a></p>— NASA (@NASA) <a >March 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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This is the fifth spacewalk of the year, aimed to complete several systems upgrades to the International Space Station. As stated by the space agency, expedition 64 Flight Engineers Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover exited the station’s Quest airlock about 7:30 a.m. for a spacewalk planned to last approximately six and a half hours.
In a release issued earlier, NASA said that during the spacewalk, Hopkins and Glover will vent early ammonia system jumper cables and relocate one of them near the Quest airlock in order to reconnect the jumper cable to the current cooling system, increasing its efficiency.
The other tasks include replacing a wireless antenna assembly on the Unity module, install a “stiffener” on the airlock’s thermal cover to provide additional structural integrity, and route cables to provide ethernet capabilities for two high-definition cameras on the station’s port truss, or “backbone.”
Few days back, NASA shared the first audio-video unveiling "How to Land on Mars” presenting first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover touching down on the Red Planet on February 18.