Sentence examples for their spacewalk from inspiring English sources

Talking to Mission Control before their spacewalk, Capt.

Scott E. Parazynski and Col. Douglas H. Wheelock began their spacewalk shortly after 6 a.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla .(AP) — Two astronauts cut short their spacewalk and hurried back to the International Space Station on Wednesday after a suit problem resulted in rising carbon dioxide levels for one of the men.

The two astronauts, Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins, began their spacewalk - 418km (260 miles) above the Earth's surface - at about 12 00 GMT and were outside the space station for nearly six hours.

For instance, while going through the painstaking task of coordinating cosmonauts on their spacewalk (in Russian), he also had to fix a broken toilet in the American segment (in English).

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station preparing for extra-vehicular activity (EVA) "camp out" at low atmospheric pressure, 10.2 psi, spending eight sleeping hours in the Quest airlock chamber before their spacewalk.

Two Russian cosmonauts took their second spacewalk in as many weeks.

In 2003 the country carried out its first successful human spaceflight, and in 2008 Chinese astronauts took their first spacewalk.

Two astronauts, Tracy E. Caldwell Dyson and Col. Douglas H. Wheelock of the Army, took their third spacewalk in the past week and a half to move the 780-pound replacement pump into place and connect the coolant and electrical cables.

Astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis's latest, and probably, last mission to the space station have made their first spacewalk.

On their second spacewalk, now scheduled for Tuesday at 12 10 GMT, the two astronauts will install a new pump.