Month: August 2016
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Jeff Williams sets new cumulative time in space record for US astronaut
NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams broke NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s record today for the longest cumulative time spent in space for a US astronaut. Jeff is on his fourth mission to space, which include one Space Shuttle mission and three long duration missions to the International Space Station. For this current mission Jeff launched on March 18th,…
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International Docking Adapter successfully installed
The International Docking Adapter (IDA) that was transported to the International Space Station (ISS) in the trunk of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was successfully installed to the end of the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) during a spacewalk today. Astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins performed a 5 hour 58 minute spacewalk to complete the…