Samantha Cristoforetti (some sighing) had posted yesterday on Twitter picture bodysuits colleagues and is now going the walk astronaut Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts who have a long list of maintenance outside ISS. Both were helped to wear the space suit just from astrosamantha who had participated in their development. The Italian astronaut is not included in the program of walks, but was still trained to be able to do them.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
Remember that the walk, which will last more than six hours, alternating phases night and day with change every 90 minutes, or as much as it takes to make the space station’s orbit of the Earth .
During the live are also possible phases of blackouts actually passes a roller blue), especially during the phases in the dark, or long breaks, not propriamenti exciting, the control room at NASA who also has the about to offer these direct.
The astronauts, orbiting in the night, facing temperatire of minus 100 degrees, while the sun passanno to more 160 degrees. The suits have been fitted with new refrigeration-heating after the astronaut Luca Parmitano had risked his life on July 16, 2103 during his second extravehicular activity (so technically called the walks in orbit ) in which he had risked drowning to block one of the pumps that keep the liquid circulating in a complex of pipes and tubes over a hundred meters long.
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