December 25, 2013

Astronaut Mike Hopkins near the Canadarm2 robotic arm during the spacewalk performed together with Rick Mastracchio (Image NASA TV)

Yesterday, Expedition 38 astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins completed the second spacewalk, in technical terms extravehicular activity (EVA), that was needed to repair the cooling system of the International Space Station. It followed the spacewalk performed on Saturday. Yesterday, in about 7 and a half hours the two astronauts installed a new pump that seems to work regularly.