Joe Acaba helps Scott Tingle during a fit test in his spacesuit.
Expedition 54 flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle, NASA astronauts, completed the first spacewalk of 2018 yesterday, January 24, conducting maintenance and making repairs to the International Space Station. It was the third EVA for Vande Hei and the first for Tingle. They replaced a Latching End Effector (LEE), which is important in grappling visiting vehicles, on the Canadarm2, the robotic arm attached to the station. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 24 minutes.
This was the 206th EVA conducted for ISS assembly and maintenance. Astronauts have spent a total of 53 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes (no seconds?) working outside the station.
The next spacewalk is scheduled for this coming Monday, January 29, for Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai of JAXA.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/01/23/nasa-astronauts-wrap-up-first-spacewalk-of-2018/
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