COLLECTION NAME:
STS-119 Gallery
Record
Title:
Ambitious Spacewalk #2
Creator:
NASA
Description:
STS-119 Mission Specialist Steve Swanson participates in the mission's second scheduled EVA. During the six-hour, 30-minute spacewalk Swanson and Mission Specialist Joseph Acaba (out of frame) prepared a work site so the STS-127 spacewalkers can more easily change out the Port 6 truss batteries later this year. On the Japanese Kibo laboratory they installed a second Global Positioning Satellite antenna that will be used for the planned rendezvous of the Japanese HTV cargo ship in September. Also they photographed areas of radiator panels extended from the Port 1 and Starboard 1 trusses and reconfigured connectors at a patch panel on the Zenith 1 truss that power Control Moment Gyroscopes. Photo Credit: NASA March 21, 2009
Date:
3/23/09
Identifier:
320965main_swanson_full
MediaType:
Image
Year:
2009
What:
STS-119
What:
Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo)
