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Fit for space: spacewalk training
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- Title Fit for space: ESA astronaut training - Fit for space: spacewalk training
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Spacewalking, known as Extravehicular Activity or EVA, is one of the most exciting and dangerous activities for an astronaut on orbit.
In this clip, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano checks the equipment needed for a series of complex EVAs he performed to maintain the dark-matter-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) during his Beyond mission in 2019-20. Luca is then shown training for these spacewalks using NASA’s Partial Gravity Simulator (POGO), the Active Gravity Offload System (ARGOS), and in the Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBL), before being fitted for the gloves he will use during his spacewalks.
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is shown training in the Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. This 10-metre-deep tank brings astronauts as close to weightlessness as possible on Earth in preparation for Extravehicular Activity in space.