{"id":46967,"date":"2017-10-11T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46967"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:52:23","slug":"spacewalking-astronauts-grease-robot-arms-new-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/spacewalking-astronauts-grease-robot-arms-new-hand.html","title":{"rendered":"Spacewalking astronauts grease robot arm&#8217;s new hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Spacewalking astronauts grease robot arm&#8217;s new hand<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Spacewalking astronauts grease robot arm&#8217;s new hand:- Spacewalking astronauts hustled through a lube job and camera swaps outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, their second trip outside in less than a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Astronaut Mark Vande Hei made fast work of greasing the big robot arm&#8217;s new hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Vande Hei and station commander Randy Bresnik replaced the latching mechanism on one end of the 58-foot robot arm last Thursday. The mechanism malfunctioned in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Tuesday&#8217;s work involved using a grease gun, which resembles a caulking gun, to keep the latching mechanism working smoothly. Vande Hei got a jump ahead in some greasing chores, but the two-part job still will spill into next week, in a third and final spacewalk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;Why don&#8217;t we wash, rinse, repeat. Do it again in a week,&#8221; Bresnik said as the 6 ?-hour spacewalk came to a close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">These latches, or hands, are located on each end of the Canadian-built robot arm. They&#8217;re used to grab arriving U.S. cargo ships and also allow the robot arm to move around the orbiting lab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Launched in 2001 with the rest of the robot arm, the original latches were showing their age. NASA plans to replace the latching mechanism on the opposite end of the arm early next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Vande Hei and Bresnik also replaced several camera assemblies at the 250-mile-high outpost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;What do you do for an encore?&#8221; Bresnik asked Vande Hei, after two successful spacewalks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;I finish six months on the space station,&#8221; Vande Hei replied. He arrived a month ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Vande Hei will sit out the next spacewalk on Oct. 18. Instead, Bresnik will be accompanied by Joe Acaba, a teacher-turned-astronaut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Six men live at the orbiting lab: three Americans, two Russians and one Italian. 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