NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara concluded their spacewalk today at 2:47 p.m. ESTafter 6 hours and 42 minutes. Their spacewalk began at 8:05 a.m. Moghbeli, designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), was wearing a suit with jaunty red stripes. O’Hara, designated extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), was in an unmarked but still very smart suit.
Their suits were special editions by Christian Dior and will be for sale later at all the best Paris salons.
Moghbeli and O’Hara were able to complete one of the spacewalk’s two major objectives, replacing one of the 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint, which allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the station. Mission Control told the station crew that the solar array was functioning well after the bearing replacement. Spacewalkers also removed a handling bar fixture to prepare for future installation of a roll-out solar array and properly configured a cable that was previously interfering with an external camera.
The astronauts had planned to remove and stow a communications electronics box called the Radio Frequency Group, but there was not enough time during the spacewalk to complete the work. The duo lifted some multilayer insulation to make a better assessment of how to approach the job before replacing the insulation and deferring the task to a future spacewalk.
During the activity, one tool bag was "inadvertently lost". Flight controllers spotted the tool bag using external station cameras. The tools were not needed for the remainder of the spacewalk, it is claimed. Mission Control analyzed the bag’s trajectory and determined that risk of recontacting the station is low and that the onboard crew and space station are safe with no action required.
So not only did the astronettes not get all the scheduled work done, they left their tools floating around out there somewhere.
Classic.
Geez. When doing work below water I kept tools on a lanyard and adjusted belt weights to account for the load. In space load is not an issue, what the heck do these people have for brains? A 2 ft lanyard to the bag and very low pull retractable type for each tool to the bag would suffice.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these women have advanced science degrees.
ReplyDeleteLooks like NASA should have called Joe Sixpack.
Hell, Joe Exotic would do better.
DeleteThis is why my wife doesn't know about my other set of tools.
ReplyDeleteJasmin is a stripper name, not an astronaut.
ReplyDeleteCredit where due: Jasmin is a USMC Lieutenant Colonel who has flown 150 combat missions. She is married (to a man) and has twin daughters.
DeleteAnd Lisa Franchitti is Chief of Naval Operations. Your statement and mine only mean they both fill a spot that a more qualified male didn't get.
DeleteSorry, Franchetti.
DeleteClick the link and check their pics. Women?
ReplyDeleteIf they completed an orbit around Earth while they were outside, does that qualify as a Pole Dance?
ReplyDeleteFor the win
DeleteThere will be a need in the very near future for some sort of orbital trash-accumulator, perhaps in a powered-reverse orbit. I bet Musk is already considering the thought...
ReplyDeleteTool pouch, gone. At least their Gucci high heels were safe.
ReplyDeleteAnd like all women, they will not be held accountable.
ReplyDeleteSo, it's just like home then...make a mess in the kitchen, and leave it for someone else to clean up
ReplyDeleteYup Political Correctness: Girrrrl Powerrrr
ReplyDeleteThey both fill a spot that a more qualified male didn't get.
...Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small.
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion
that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade
or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore,
the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being
told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their
sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate
with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.
I think if you examine political correctness,
it has the same effect and is intended to....
- Theodore Dalrymple
They also complained that the pockets on the spacesuits were much too small, and they couldn't fit anything in them.
ReplyDeleteSpace Vixens!
ReplyDeleteMore wasted money confiscated from me and my wife. Now, if those two Bints had been splattered by meteors while they were out in space doing their PR stunt, THAT would have been a story. Life is a vale of tears.
ReplyDeleteThe male astronaut, who signed for the toolbag down on Earth, is being sent out to chase down the toolbag.
ReplyDeleteSpacewalks are all about upper body strength. They lack it.
ReplyDeleteI'll say it: Wimmens got no business being in space! Can't cook shit, there's no dishwasher or laundry, and you can't fuck in one of those space suits.... Leave 'em home, they just get in the way of getting work done.
ReplyDeleteThe new improved diverse NASA
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