Science and Exploration

This Week @NASA: July Spacewalks Previewed

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
July 6, 2013
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This Week @NASA: July Spacewalks Previewed

Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will venture outside the International Space Station twice in July on spacewalks to prepare for a new Russian module and perform additional installations on the station’s backbone.
The EVA’s, scheduled for July 9 and July 16, were previewed for the media during a briefing at the Johnson Space Center. NASA TV coverage of the spacewalks will begin at 7 a.m. on both days. Also, Cosmic Fireworks, Planetary Probe Workshop, Student Spaceflight Experiments, Supersonic Airfoil, Pluto’s New Moons Named and more.

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