NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 3:26 p.m. EDT, after 7 hours and 15 minutes. In the seventh spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts installed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) into its mounting bracket on the far …
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Spacewalk activities continue after Shane Kimbrough troubleshoots spacesuit
About three hours into today’s spacewalk, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough made his way back to the Quest airlock at the International Space Station to reconnect his spacesuit to an umbilical connection and restarted it. The reset corrected the issues with his spacesuit’s display and controls module that provides him information about the status of his …
Astronauts Begin Spacewalk to Install Roll-Out Solar Arrays
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and deploy the first new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:11 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about …
NASA TV is Live as Astronauts Get Ready for Spacewalk
NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 65 are preparing to go outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk expected to begin …
Facebook Launches New Gaming Fan Groups as Part of its Broader Push into the Gaming Space
Facebook has announced a new group type designed to help it grow gaming communities on the platform.
LinkedIn Provides New insights into the Evolving Marketing Career Landscape [Infographic]
LinkedIn has shared some new insights into how marketing roles have changed over the past year.
Twitter Shares New Insights into Rising Tweet Engagement Around Sports [Infographic]
Twitter has provided some new insights into the rising engagement around sports in the app.
TikTok Becomes Major Sponsor of VidCon 2021, Taking Over from YouTube
Could this be a changing of the guard in the digital creator space?
Niantic, Hasbro Announce Transformers: Heavy Metal AR Game Coming This Year
Transformers roll out (onto mobile devices)! Transformers: Heavy Metal is a mobile AR game using the Niantic Lightship platform, launching later this year.
Turtle Beach Reveals Elaborate Microsoft Flight Simulator Controller
This new Microsoft Flight Simulator controller looks incredible, but VR fans beware…