NASA To Hold Press Conference Monday To Outline Plans to Fix Failed ISS Cooling Loop
NASA will hold a press conference tomorrow, August 2, at 4:00 pm EDT from Johnson Space Center to discuss plans for two spacewalks to fix a cooling pump that failed on Saturday. A circuit breaker tripped Saturday night resulting in “the failure of the Pump Module for [cooling] loop A that feeds ammonia to maintain the proper cooling for systems and avionics,” according to NASA’s ISS website. NASA says the crew is not in danger and the ISS is in a “stable configuration.”
Astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson were already preparing for a spacewalk on Thursday. Their task will now change to replace the failed pump, which is on the exterior of the station — on the S1 truss. Two spare pumps are stowed on the truss.
Correction: An earlier posting of this article misspelled astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson’s name.
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