Sentence examples for In the spacewalk from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schlegel fell ill from an undisclosed problem as the Atlantis docked, leading to a one-day delay in the spacewalk and causing NASA to draft Mr. Love as a substitute for the task.

In fact, though, the technique tested in the spacewalk, the fourth of the shuttle Endeavour's mission to the station, would not have made a difference for Columbia or its crew: the putty could not have patched the gaping hole in the leading edge panel of the left wing that was caused by a falling piece of insulating foam from the external tank.

Army Lt. Col. Nancy J. Currie, a veteran of three shuttle missions, will operate the shuttle's robot arm to capture and release Hubble and to assist in the spacewalks.

The torch was returned to Earth in November soon after the spacewalk in a Russian Soyuz capsule that landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan with two NASA astronauts and a cosmonaut who spent five months in space.

Messages for Peake flooded in before and during the spacewalk.

The astronauts, who have been aboard the space station for four months, have also practiced many of the procedures for the spacewalk in the last two weeks.

"It's a tremendously complex activity," said William Gerstenmaier, the space station program manager, in Houston, shortly before the spacewalk began.

The official in charge of monitoring the spacewalk inside Mission Control, Mike Hess, likened the foray to working on the 11th story of a 13-story building -- with a much better view, 230 miles above Earth.

Flight controller Kristen Facciol, who'll be supporting the two astronauts from Houston, has tweeted: "I cannot contain my excitement!!!!" And, in a pleasant coincidence, the spacewalk on Friday will take place during the last week of Women's History Month.

"Both Mastracchio and Hopkins reported dry conditions repeatedly throughout Saturday's activities and the two were never in danger," NASA officials wrote in a press release after the spacewalk.

Mission Control in Houston officially called off the spacewalk about an hour after it began.