On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I'm watching this particular spacewalk live via NASA's YouTube channel as I type this. To say that I am amazed at what I'm seeing right now...maybe not an understatement.

Quoting the summary in full: "After more than 20 years, the International Space Station is getting new solar arrays, and you have the chance to watch it LIVE during a spacewalk! On June 16, Shane Kimbrough of NASA Astronauts and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will venture into the vacuum of space for ~6.5 hours to install and deploy two roll-out solar arrays on the space station. "

And Marc Garneau - now the Canadian federal minister of transportation - just got name-checked during this live feed because of his own space-walking history...

In addition to the news about Notre Dame de Paris and Gene Wolfe...Owen Garriott of Skylab 3 and STS-9 is no more.

My source for the info:

https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1117875297334910977

Some friends of mine in ByMUG will be pleased with this.



Future stations and ships will, one suspects, have their own "sweet spots" for such projects.

Finally got around to viewing this footage, and got another dose of appreciation for the workload being handled on a daily basis "upstairs".

How cool is it that we live in an age that we can see stuff like this?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=35204

*contented smile*