{"id":72059,"date":"2025-08-16T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72059\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:17:08","slug":"spacewalk-pop-up-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72059\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacewalk Pop-Up &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kimbrough-rs.pdf?emrc=69d4b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Kimbrough<\/a> is photographed as he left the airlock hatch during a spacewalk on Jan. 13, 2017. Kimbrough performed nine spacewalks during his three spaceflights. He retired in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts conduct spacewalks to perform maintenance on the space station, install new equipment, or deploy science experiments.\u00a0These activities also inform future missions like the Artemis campaign and exploring Mars; through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/suits-and-rovers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program<\/a>, the agency develops next-generation spacesuits, human-rated rovers (pressurized and unpressurized), and tools, along with all the necessary spacewalking support systems for use in microgravity, on the lunar surface and, eventually, on other planets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/space-station-spacewalks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about spacewalks at the International Space Station.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed as he left the airlock hatch during a spacewalk on Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,3312,56382,128,285],"class_list":["post-72059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-robert-shane-kimbrough","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}