I’ve spent the day so far at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to prepare a training run in the pool I’ll have next Friday with veteran spacewalker Peggy Whitson.
First we had the so-called 1G class, where we were introduced to the hardware and the procedures. And then I had a chance to dive in the pool to take a look at worksites and translation paths.
We will replace two components: the S-Band antenna (SASA) and one the four Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMG). The CMGs are pretty massive: in the picture you can see astronaut Dave Williams holding one during a STS-118 spacewalk, when a failed ISS CMG was replaced.
Photo credit: NASA
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
01/11/2013