Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
NASA officials have postponed one of two forthcoming spacewalks in the wake of a recent coolant leak on the Russian segment of the International Space Station., Oct. 9, but the cause is still unknown at this time. It's the third time that Russian ISS equipment has leaked ammonia in the past year. Roscosmos plans its own spacewalk on Oct.
now scheduled for Oct. 30 following its own delay due to the leak, is still expected to go forward. O'Hara will be joined by NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli on only the fourth-ever all-woman spacewalk, following a trio by NASA astronautsand Jessica Meir in 2019 and 2020. Moghbeli and O'Hara will remove a faulty electronics box and replace a bearing needed for one of the station's solar arrays.
Russia has said that the other two ammonia leaks on the ISS are due to micrometeroid strikes. The first leak,. Fixing the matter took several spacecraft shipments and forced the three astronauts to double their six-month stay to a year.
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