Tag: Peggy Whitson

  • ISS Contingency Spacewalk Completed Successfully

    Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer completed a 2 hour 41-minute contingency spacewalk today following the failure of an Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (MDM) over the weekend. During the walk, they successfully replaced the MDM and also installed two wireless network antenna’s This was Peggy’s 10th walk for a total time of 60 hours 21-minutes, surpassing John Grunsfeld to…

  • Peggy Whitson ISS mission extention

    NASA announced this week that Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has already set several space flight records and will soon break Scott Kelly’s record for most time in space by a US Astronaut, will be staying on the International Space Station for an additional three months. Originally scheduled to return home in June this year with her…

  • Expedition 50 completes fourth EVA

    Today Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson completed a 7 hour 4 minute Extravehicular Activity (EVA) bring the total count of EVA’s performed at the International Space Station (ISS) to 199 for a total time of 1,243 hours 42 minutes. During the EVA they completed the following primary tasks:- EPIC MDM removal & replace Node 3 axial…