Luca Parmitano's first spacewalk

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Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk outside the International Space Station on 9 July, 2013.

The sortie was planned for six and half hours, but the astronauts proceeded faster than planned and had time for extra 'get-ahead' tasks, routing cables and staging equipment to help future spacewalkers. The final duration of Tuesday's extravehicular activity was 6 hours and 7 minutes.

The primary goals were to replace a Ku-band communications transceiver, retrieve two science experiments that exposed material samples to space, install cables for Russia's coming Nauka laboratory module, and carry out routine maintenance. Nauka will replace the Pirs module currently attached to the Station.

The highlight of the spacewalk for Luca was surely riding on the platform at the end of the Station's Canadarm2 robot arm.

Operated by Karen Nyberg inside the Station, the arm moved Luca to the port side of the Station's long central truss to remove a failed camera that will be returned to Earth for analysis.

Finally, Luca installed a multilayer insulation cover to protect the docking interface of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 on the Harmony module.
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Goosebumps all up with the exploration job folks. You're the hope for a better future

MarcoSebastiani
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I was sad when Luca Parmitano put the big cover of PMA 2( Pressure Mating Adapter 2), because this adapter was used many times for US shuttles to dock to the international space station. Now everything is over. I hope that in about 3 or 4 years this adapter will be used for another ships. Thanks to the shuttles we have this big station and these people up there.


nikolaybudev
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L'Italia ti ringrazia, Luca. Grandissimo e bravissimo

ritacappucci
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Thanks ESA and thanks Luca for these great historical moments!

Snprevenge
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Complimenti Luca, sei veramente un esempio di abilità e preparazione. Sono orgoglioso di te.

giancarlotaccini
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This is great to ESA and NASA and at all to Luca Parmitano in his first trip in the Sky and to the crew 36! good luck them all!

HeljoValter
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should the outside door at 2:11 not be a little more solid? seems not to be any sort of metal

kimmanente
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AWESOME! That's my dream, is better to start studying hard.

randomjoao