{"id":221530,"date":"2014-10-08T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"3920225c94f2c1360ac293cc94143e97"},"modified":"2014-10-08T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:46:00","slug":"a-perfect-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221530","title":{"rendered":"A perfect walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/a_perfect_walk\/14959453-1-eng-GB\/A_perfect_walk_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst spent six hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on Tuesday, 7 October 2014. This was the first spacewalk for both astronauts but they performed well in the weightlessness of orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a weightless world where there is no up or down, the pair worked together to move a 385 kg pump from the Station\u2019s truss to a permanent stowage location near the US Destiny module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander strapped himself to the Station\u2019s robotic arm and held on to the unit while NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore operated the 16 m-long Canadarm from inside the orbital outpost. While moving, Alexander held on to the pump unit with flexed arms to absorb any shocks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter working with Reid to attach the pump, Alexander took the arm for a last ride to park it and prepare it for its next use, berthing visiting spacecraft. Here, Alexander had his hands free and time to take a few photographs, such as this one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander\u2019s feet are strapped to the arm and tethers secure him to the arm. To the right is the commercial Dragon supply vessel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander then helped Reid upgrade the power relay on a trolley before they returned to the airlock at 18:34 GMT (20:34 CEST).<\/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\/images\/2014\/10\/a_perfect_walk\/14959453-1-eng-GB\/A_perfect_walk_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst spent six hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on Tuesday, 7 October 2014. This was the first spacewalk for both astronauts but they performed well in the weightlessness of orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a weightless world where there is no up or down, the pair worked together to move a 385 kg pump from the Station\u2019s truss to a permanent stowage location near the US Destiny module.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander strapped himself to the Station\u2019s robotic arm and held on to the unit while NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore operated the 16 m-long Canadarm from inside the orbital outpost. While moving, Alexander held on to the pump unit with flexed arms to absorb any shocks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter working with Reid to attach the pump, Alexander took the arm for a last ride to park it and prepare it for its next use, berthing visiting spacecraft. Here, Alexander had his hands free and time to take a few photographs, such as this one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander\u2019s feet are strapped to the arm and tethers secure him to the arm. To the right is the commercial Dragon supply vessel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander then helped Reid upgrade the power relay on a trolley before they returned to the airlock at 18:34 GMT (20:34 CEST).<\/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-221530","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\/221530","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=221530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221530\/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=221530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}