The Quest Joint Airlock, previously known as the Joint Airlock Module, is the primary airlock for the International Space Station. Quest was designed to...
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include an airlock, and all extravehicular activity had to be facilitated by the airlock on the Space Shuttle until the Quest Joint Airlock module was...
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Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour delivered the Destiny laboratory and Quest airlock, in addition to the station's main robot arm, the Canadarm2, and several...
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in August from the US Quest airlock in US spacesuits, and the second, in September, in Russian spacesuits from the Pirs airlock. On 16 August 2005 at...
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camped out in the Quest Airlock overnight, in preparation for the mission's first spacewalk. The campout was done with the airlock's air pressure reduced...
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spacewalks were performed from a shuttle, ninety-three from the Quest Joint Airlock, thirty-two from the Pirs docking compartment, and two from the transfer...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its primary objectives were to install the Quest Joint Airlock and help perform maintenance on the International Space Station....
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Radiator panels External Stowage Platform 1 Destiny lab Quest airlock (plan view) Quest airlock (isometric view) Node 1 Node 2 Cupola Columbus Pirs Poisk...
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of the Quest airlock. Swanson and Forrester retrieved a TV camera and its support structure from a stowage platform attached to the Quest Airlock and installed...
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S6 truss Victor reading blueprint information on an iPad inside the Quest Airlock, in prep for his spacewalk Glover and his crewmates in the US lab A...
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Module and the Quest airlock woke the Atlantis astronauts. The depressurization alarm triggered automatic procedures that brought the airlock back up to the...
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to Move Experiment Airlock". blogs.nasa.gov. Retrieved 3 May 2023. Garcia, Mark (3 May 2023). "Cosmonauts Move Experiment Airlock and Complete Spacewalk"...
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Quest airlock, with its air pressure reduced to 10.2 psi. A section of ISS as photographed by a STS-132 crew member Garrett Reisman inside the Quest airlock...
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oxygen masks and entered the crew lock of the Quest airlock for the standard pre-spacewalk campout. The airlock was lowered to 10.2 psi for the night. This...
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US Orbital Segment (section Quest)
connects Unity with the Russian segment. Unity is also connected to the Quest airlock on the starboard side, Tranquility on the port side, and the Z1 truss...
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preparing for spacewalks by "camping out" or spending the night in the Quest airlock, the decompression capsule through which astronauts enter and exit space...
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along with NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson. He emerged from the U.S. Quest airlock at 10:24 UTC, to officially begin the spacewalk. During the spacewalk...
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employed a "camp out" procedure where the spacewalk team sleeps in the Quest airlock module while the atmosphere is adjusted. Manufacturer: ILC Dover (suit)...
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Specialists Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman spent the night in the station's Quest Airlock in preparation for the second spacewalk of the mission. Dextre was put...
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stay at the International Space Station. Both were based out of the Quest Airlock, and the spacewalkers used U.S. spacesuits, which are called Extravehicular...
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started at 19:41 UTC with Bob Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang exiting the Quest airlock, 30 minutes early. EVA No. 2 was planned to activate channels 2 and...
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and Parmitano made his way back to the Quest airlock, followed by fellow astronaut Chris Cassidy. The airlock began repressurizing after a 1-hour and...
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orbital segment had used oxygen in a pressurized storage tank on the Quest airlock module, or from the Russian service module. Prior to the activation...
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commander, Peggy Whitson, in US EMUs ventured into space from the station's Quest airlock at 09:54 UTC. Malenchenko's suit was all white, and the purpose of the...
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was to install the Quest Joint Airlock onto the station. The STS-104 crew performed 3 spacewalks. First spacewalk; Joint Airlock Installation The first...
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External Stowage Platform-2, which was mounted to the port side of the Quest Airlock. They deployed MISSE 5 to the station's exterior, and replaced one of...
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EVA. Mission Specialists Swanson and Arnold spent the night in the Quest airlock camping out in a reduced-nitrogen atmosphere, a standard procedure designed...
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that all of a shuttle crew's spacewalks were based from the station's, Quest Airlock. Ross performed 2 EVAs totaling 14 hours and 9 minutes. Mission duration...
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space station assembly and maintenance. The two astronauts exited the Quest Airlock at about 11:21 am EDT. Wolf's spacesuit had solid red stripes for identification...
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NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Warren Hoburg exited the station’s Quest airlock and installed an upgraded iROSA on the 1A power channel on the S4 truss...
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