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#40
by
Targeteer
on 01 Nov, 2023 10:02
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No way the EVA starts at 0705. They had had trouble installing the SAFER on Jaws.
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#41
by
Targeteer
on 01 Nov, 2023 10:05
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Snagged a computer and almost pulled it off the wall with a comm cord. Specialists on the ground cringe in horror
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#42
by
Targeteer
on 01 Nov, 2023 10:07
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Last minute bathroom break for IV Anne Mclain
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#43
by
Targeteer
on 01 Nov, 2023 10:18
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herding floating cats in the airlock trying to close the hatch
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#44
by
centaurinasa
on 01 Nov, 2023 10:58
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US EVA-89: This will be the 12th ISS EVA so far this year, the 2nd for Expedition 70 and the first for Moghbeli and O'Hara; for ID, Moghbeli, call sign EV-1, is wearing a suit with red stripes while O'Hara, EV-2, is wearing an unmarked suit
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1719682670173561278
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#45
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:05
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Hatch is now open! EVAers are now speaking with Ground IV Anne McClain.
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#46
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:08
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Stowing SCUs. Spacewalk officially began right on time at 8:05 am ET.
EV1 reports that some water came out when she detached the SCU, which froze on her helmet bubble.
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#47
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:12
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Last suit checks - one astronaut reports 4.2 psi, the other 4.4 psi.
Go to open thermal cover. Astronauts will be coming out in daylight, but 12 minutes to sunset.
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#48
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:14
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Moghbeli (EV1 with the red stripes) out of the airlock first.
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#49
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:19
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O'Hara now egressing the airlock as well, but she's hidden by the thermal cover.
Edit - there she is. McClain remarks "welcome to space!" O'Hara responds "blowing my mind."
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#50
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:25
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Orbital sunset. The EVAers are checking each other's SAFER handles and generally getting adapted to moving around in zero G.
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#51
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:30
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Thermal cover is closed. McClain is advising the first-time EVAers on performing "translation adaptation" - suggests they do it like in the NBL, starting with some basic pitch/roll/yaw maneuvers.
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#52
by
centaurinasa
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:31
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US EVA-89: O'Hara plans to remove one of the 12 TBAs on the left-side SARJ and replace it with a spare unit after applying lubricant to the race ring; a TBA is shown at left; the photo at right shows a TBA clamped around a toothed race ring segment`
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1719692857190043665
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#53
by
centaurinasa
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:32
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US EVA-89: While O'Hara is busy with the TBA R&R, Moghbeli will remove a no-longer-needed handling fixture, carry out a photo survey at the site where a future roll-out solar array blanket will be installed and straighten out an external camera ethernet cable
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1719693718049943926
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#54
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:34
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O'Hara's heading up the CETA spur, Moghbeli's grabbing some tools from the toolbox on the exterior of the airlock.
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#55
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:38
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Moghbeli also heading up the CETA spur. They agree that moving around is a little easier than in the NBL.
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#56
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:44
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McClain and O'Hara are discussing how to get everything situated at the TBA R&R worksite.
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#57
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:45
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First HECA view of the EVA, although there's not much to see right now.
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#58
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 11:54
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Also getting helmet views from Loral - the MLI in the center of her view is over the SARJ TBAs, with "TBA 7" marked on one of them.
Edit - another HECA view
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#59
by
Yellowstone10
on 01 Nov, 2023 12:00
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Moghbeli is heading onto the mast canister - 2A, I think? - where she'll be removing the H-fixture visible in her HECA.
