{"id":209603,"date":"2013-07-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"78aead2fcf9418c15cf8110ae04cab42"},"modified":"2013-07-10T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:00:00","slug":"luca-parmitanos-first-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=209603","title":{"rendered":"Luca Parmitano&#8217;s first spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/07\/luca_parmitano_s_first_spacewalk\/12940601-2-eng-GB\/Luca_Parmitano_s_first_spacewalk_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAstronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk outside the International Space Station on 9 July, 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sortie was planned for six and half hours, but the astronauts proceeded faster than planned and had time for extra \u2018get-ahead\u2019 tasks, routing cables and staging equipment to help future spacewalkers. The final duration of Tuesday\u2019s extravehicular activity was 6 hours and 7 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe primary goals were to replace a Ku-band communications transceiver, retrieve two science experiments that exposed material samples to space, install cables for Russia\u2019s coming Nauka laboratory module, and carry out routine maintenance. Nauka will replace the Pirs module currently attached to the Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe highlight of the spacewalk for Luca was surely riding on the platform at the end of the Station\u2019s Canadarm2 robot arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOperated by Karen Nyberg inside the Station, the arm moved Luca to the port side of the Station\u2019s long central truss to remove a failed camera that will be returned to Earth for analysis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinally, Luca installed a multilayer insulation cover to protect the docking interface of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 on the Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLuca and Chris will venture out to space again on 16 July to continue work started during this spacewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/07\/luca_parmitano_s_first_spacewalk\/12940601-2-eng-GB\/Luca_Parmitano_s_first_spacewalk_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAstronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk outside the International Space Station on 9 July, 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sortie was planned for six and half hours, but the astronauts proceeded faster than planned and had time for extra \u2018get-ahead\u2019 tasks, routing cables and staging equipment to help future spacewalkers. The final duration of Tuesday\u2019s extravehicular activity was 6 hours and 7 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe primary goals were to replace a Ku-band communications transceiver, retrieve two science experiments that exposed material samples to space, install cables for Russia\u2019s coming Nauka laboratory module, and carry out routine maintenance. Nauka will replace the Pirs module currently attached to the Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe highlight of the spacewalk for Luca was surely riding on the platform at the end of the Station\u2019s Canadarm2 robot arm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOperated by Karen Nyberg inside the Station, the arm moved Luca to the port side of the Station\u2019s long central truss to remove a failed camera that will be returned to Earth for analysis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinally, Luca installed a multilayer insulation cover to protect the docking interface of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 on the Harmony module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLuca and Chris will venture out to space again on 16 July to continue work started during this spacewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}