Component of the Japanese Kibo laboratory installed on the ISS
Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 06:14
in Astronomy & Space
The Japanese Experiment Module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS) is almost complete as the astronauts Tim Kopra and Dave Wolf prepared the installation of the so-called Exposed Facility component. It was a top priority for the mission. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 32 minutes. This was the first of five spacewalks planned. After a series of robotic arm manipulations, the Exposed Facility was officially latched to the Kibo laboratory at 21:29 GMT...