While on a mission outside the ISS, an American astronaut lost a small mirror used to read the inscriptions, which went floating in space.
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NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy, who has just made an outing outside of the International Space Station (ISS), lost during the mission a small mirror attached to the wrist, said the site Spaceflight Now. The object slipped, for an unknown reason, from the suit and moved away from its owner floating in space at a speed of about 1km / h.
Weighing just 50 grams, the mirror poses no danger to either the ISS or the crew, the site said, adding that the astronaut had a spare. Small mirrors are used to read the inscriptions of the space suits which cannot be seen directly.
A six hour mission
Two American astronauts, Christopher Cassidy and Robert Behnken, carried out a spacewalk on June 26, the first of the four planned, to complete a multi-year job of replacing 48 aging batteries in the laboratory’s solar energy system with 24 lithium-ion units more powerful. The replacement of the batteries started in January 2017 and is scheduled to end next month.
The two men stayed in space for six hours and seven minutes, the site said.
Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken’s teammate aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, and cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoli Ivanichine, who arrived on the ISS aboard a Soyuz with Chris Cassidy, assisted their teammates inside the station.
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