{"id":111128,"date":"2020-08-11T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/behnken-and-cassidy-conclude-ten-spacewalks-each"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:49:02","slug":"behnken-and-cassidy-conclude-ten-spacewalks-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/behnken-and-cassidy-conclude-ten-spacewalks-each","title":{"rendered":"Behnken and Cassidy Conclude Ten Spacewalks Each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behnken-and-cassidy-conclude-ten-spacewalks-each.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/robert-l-behnken\">Robert Behnken<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/christopher-j-cassidy\">Chris Cassidy<\/a> concluded their spacewalk at 12:41 p.m. EDT, after five hours and 29 minutes. The two NASA astronauts completed a number of tasks designed to upgrade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">International Space Station<\/a> systems.<\/p>\n<p>They began by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/nasa-s-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants\">installing a protective storage unit<\/a> that includes two <a href=\"https:\/\/nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov\/rell.html\">Robotic External Leak Locator (RELL)<\/a> units the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Dextre robot can use to detect leaks of ammonia, which is used to operate the station\u2019s cooling system.<\/p>\n<p>Behnken and Cassidy then removed two lifting fixtures at the base of station solar arrays on the near port truss, or backbone, of the station. The \u201cH-fixtures\u201d were used for ground processing of the solar arrays prior to their launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Behnken and Chris Cassidy concluded their spacewalk at 12:41 p.m. EDT, after five hours and 29 minutes. The two NASA astronauts completed a number of tasks designed to upgrade International Space Station systems. They began by installing a protective storage unit that includes two Robotic External Leak Locator (RELL) units the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}