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The handrail bolt that stalled a six-hour spacewalk clock
A teacher-turned-astronaut braces on a handrail two hundred fifty miles up as a single bolt stalls a spacewalk. Will they make it in time?
The handrail bolt that stalled a six-hour spacewalk clock
In this episode, we follow Joseph Acaba from classrooms and field labs to the vacuum outside the International Space Station, tracing the skills he brought to a stalled spacewalk. What did a cart and a rail have to do with keeping the station powered?
Person: Joseph Acaba
Date: March 17, 2009
Event: Spacewalk to move a cart along a rail on the ISS
Mission: STS-119 / installation of the S6 truss…
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