Image: 'Swage' was the word of the day on Monday as ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano carried out the third spacewalk to service the cosmic ray hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. Here Luca is suspended above Earth as he is moved to a second worksite to swage, or join, the instrument's tubes to a new pump system that will give it a new lease on life. Riding on the International Space Station's robotic arm, Luca soared to the cosmic ray detector's worksite for nearly five hours of space plumbi...
Image: 'Swage' was the word of the day on Monday as ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano carried out the third spacewalk to service the cosmic ray hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. Here Luca is suspended above Earth as he is moved to a second worksite to swage, or join, the instrument's tubes to a new pump system that will give it a new lease on life. Riding on the International Space Station's robotic arm, Luca soared to the cosmic ray detector's worksite for nearly five hours of space plumbi...
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