LONDON: Aviation Week’s Mark Carreau was granted a rare one-on-one interview with NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts who were aboard the International Space Station. In the 10-min. video, Carreau asks about the importance of a mid-February series of spacewalks in which Wilmore and Virts were providing power, data and heater cables that will be used to make the first of two parking spots for commercial crew vehicles being developed by Boeing and SpaceX.
“It’s absolutely of huge significance. It’s changing the capabilities of the ISS,” Wilmore said. “This is a huge effort. We’ve spent 6.5 hr. on each of two spacewalks. But it’s been literally years of planning by engineering, planning, assessment and operations teams across the nation, doing much in preparation for this. So this is a huge endeavor.”
Carreau also scores details on water in the spacesuit and the physical demands of a spacewalk, all while Wilmore floats horizontally in the frame.
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