SafetyBlog

Two American astronauts, Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins, finished up one of the two spacewalking missions designed to fix a key cooling pump attached to the International Space Station (ISS). While there were some hiccups along the way, both astronauts successfully performed the mission and made it safely back to the ISS. However, news of an Italian astronaut's brush with death earlier this year has forced NASA to postpone the second leg of the ISS spacewalking mission.Last Saturday, …