Saturday, May 11, 2013

The astronauts removed the "ammonia snow" after the repair the ISS in open space - Reuters

U.S. astronauts Thomas Mashburn and Chris Cassidy conducted unscheduled work session in the open space in which to stop the leakage of ammonia. Look at the video, they replaced the coolant pump.

U.S. astronauts Thomas Mashburn and Chris Cassidy for five and a half hours for the ISS were able to eliminate the leakage of ammonia suddenly emerged from the cooling system energy system.

gas emissions was recorded on the U.S. side of the station on the night of Friday, May 10 – the crew noticed in the ports of white flakes of frozen ammonia. Having agreed with the partners in the ISS their actions, Cassidy and Mashburn went overboard and discovered a leak in hot pursuit.

job astronauts, NASA officials said, was unique because they had to prepare for a spacewalk in a very short period of time.

However, experts have yet to conduct a series of checks and confirm that the replacement unit pumps, which had Cassidy and Mashburn during an unscheduled spacewalk actually stopped the leak.

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