US space agency NASA shared a video today of a pair of astronauts.
US space agency NASA today shared a video of a pair of astronauts seen walking in space.
The 1-minute video shows astronauts Mike Hopkins leaving the space station to join his colleague Victor Glover, who is already on his space journey.
“Caught in action! Check out @Astro_illini leaving or” dropping “the @Space_Station. Already outside the hide, he’s teaming up with @AstroVicGlover for a second the two have a spaceship together – Glover’s suit or “Ike” has red stripes – Hopkins’ or “Hopper’s suit doesn’t have prostitutes,” NASA tweeted the video.
The spacewalk is expected to last around six and a half hours.
The astronauts plan to perform various tasks that could not be completed on a series of previous missions in space.
Caught in action! check out @Astro_illini leaving or “letting go” of the @Space_Station. Already outside the lap, he comes together @AstroVicGlover for the pair’s second spacewalk together.
🔴 – Glover or Ike’s suit has red stripes
⚪️ – Hopkins or Hopper suits are not striped pic.twitter.com/203mdc4KUi– NASA (@NASA) March 13, 2021
The astronauts are tasked with retrofitting “ammonia jumper cables, installing a structural“ stiffener ”on the airlock thermal cover, and completing a pay cable connection on the new Columbus-model Bartolomeo platform, “NASA said in an earlier news release.
Other tasks include replacing a wireless communication antenna on a Unity module.