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NASA Previews David Saint Jacques and Anne McClain Spacewalk

Marc Boucher April 3, 2019 Business, News, Technology Leave a comment

NASA preview of Expedition 59 spacewalk with David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain. Credit: NASA.

David Saint-Jacques will put years of training for a spacewalk to work on Monday April 8 as he and fellow Expedition 59 astronaut Anne McClain will exit the space stations Quest airlock around 8:05 a.m EDT to begin an approximate 7 hour spacewalk.

The two astronauts will install truss jumpers on the Unity module and the Starboard truss structure to ensure the Canadarm2 stays powered in the event one of its other power units fail.

Yesterday NASA previewed the spacewalk. The participants were;

Kenny Todd, International Space Station manager for Operations and Integration
Rick Henfling, spacewalk flight director
John Mularski, lead spacewalk officer

The 45 minute video below discusses the spacewalk in detail.

https://youtu.be/dbEsQgYqayE?t=325

Tags Astronaut David Saint-Jacques Canadian Space Agency Expedition 58/59 International Space Station Spacewalk

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Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor & publisher. He is the founder of SpaceQ Media Inc. and Executive Vice President, Content of SpaceNews. Boucher has 25+ years working in various roles in the space industry and a total of 30 years as a technology entrepreneur including creating Maple Square, Canada's first internet directory and search engine.