Astronauts Begin Spacewalk Series To Repair Cosmic Ray Detector Written 15 November 2019
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NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and ESA Commander Luca Parmitano inside the ISS preparing for their space walk. | NASA
The AP reports that NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano “have begun an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks to fix a cosmic ray detector at the” ISS. On Friday, the pair “ventured out…with dozens of tools and four new pumps for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.” The cooling system on the spectrometer “is almost dead.”
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