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Spacesuit Gloves Contaminated During Friday's Historic Spacewalk


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This past Friday, NASA astronauts Christine Koch and Jessica Meir embarked on a spacewalk to replace one of the International Space Station's battery charge-discharge units (BCDU) after it failed following a previous spacewalk on Oct. 11. The spacewalk was successful as the unit was replaced, with the astronauts also completing some "get ahead" or extra tasks. However, when the astronauts re-entered the station, there was a contaminant on one of Koch's gloves. 

But it's most likely that this "contaminant" is just grease from the station´s Canadarm2 robotic arm, Koch said during a post-spacewalk webcast today (Oct. 21). 

 

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch gets fitted in her spacesuit ahead of her first spacewalk on March 29, 2019.
 
 
 

 

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