Italian astronaut Luca
Parmitano, the current commander of the International Space
Station (ISS), on Friday embarked on the second of a series of
tough space spacewalks he is set to do during the Beyond
mission.
The aim of these spacewalks is to service the
cosmic-particle-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02).
Parmitano, who is widely known by his Twitter name AstroLuca
but has also been nicknamed Luca Skywalker by his fellow
astronauts, became the first European to lead a spacewalk a week
ago.
That was the third spacewalk of Parmitano's career and it
ended early and successfully, after six hours with US colleague
Andrew Morgan.
On Friday Parmitano and Morgan will replace the AMS-02's
cooling system - a task never intended to be done in orbit.
The spacewalk is expected to take about six hours.
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