Spacewalking is another thing that you would expect-- in my first National Geographic book, I wrote a huge chapter about spacewalking .
A spacewalk is definitely a highlight of the experience.
So spacewalking is probably the most extreme juxtaposition of sublime and mundane that I've ever experienced in my life.
You can do a spacewalk in a suit that's too big for you, but it's much more challenging-- and I've done a couple,
The first thing about spacewalking is that spacesuit.
The two spacewalks that we did, one to integrate the docking adapter, and then two weeks later, we went back outside to do a variety of other tasks,
what it took to do a spacewalk , so neither I, nor any of the other women, would complain.
I'd never done a spacewalk before because, as the pilot or commander of the space shuttle, you just don't do them.
Neither of us had done a spacewalk before.
Because we needed to do a spacewalk to integrate that docking adapter onto the very front end of the space station.
flights or do the simulations of a spacewalk in the neutral buoyancy lab take centrifuge rides that sort of thing
It was much worse than spacewalking .
I didn't do any of the spacewalks .
And you can even go even further and look at a spacewalk .
was there my landing Aleksei laying off the first guided a spacewalk same thing he's a friend of my dad's he's now my
So if there’s an astronaut out doing his spacewalk , they’re in a pressurized space suit and just like you can’t really make a tiny little hole in a balloon, if something
It had-- and the guy at the beginning scene out doing a spacewalk like you saw there in the video flying around in the jet pack, we don't do that.
It also meant that Kate and I needed to get ready for two spacewalks to go outside.
I've written about a Russian cosmonaut, who nearly dies on his first ever spacewalk , the first human spacewalk , and how his suit gets
Yeah, I had the opportunity on this flight to do three spacewalks .
Now sometimes, the blocks of time that are dedicated to your activity are 10 hours, if it's a spacewalk .
Shuttle and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, commanding the International Space Station, completing three spacewalks , and performing
And then, once you're out there, for my three spacewalks , I've never been so busy in my life.
And Commander Tim Kopra of NASA has going on not one, not two, but three spacewalks .
A transformative moment or reaction I had, other than many beautiful things I observed, especially like the views I saw during my spacewalks and things that
I flew the Space Shuttle twice; I was the pilot of the Russian Soyuz on my third flight; I helped build two space stations; I’ve done a couple spacewalks .
And so when you total it all up after all of those spaceflights, including while I was outside on the spacewalks , I think I took about 45,000 pictures.