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The Quest Airlock is a pressurized space station module consisting of two compartments attached end-to-end by a connecting bulkhead and hatch. The two compartments consist of: the Equipment Lock, which provides the systems and volume for suit maintenance and refurbishment, and the Crew Lock, which provides the actual exit for performing EVAs.
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A close-up of a government-reference airlock module for the Gateway Space Station. Mission planning calls for an airlock to be delivered and integrated to Gateway by the crewed Orion spacecraft on the Artemis VI mission after launching on an Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket.
The Quest Joint Airlock is the primary airlock for the International Space Station. Quest was designed to host spacewalks with both Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits and Orlan space suits. The airlock was launched on STS-104 on July 14, 2001. It was attached to the starboard CBM of the Unity during STS-104. The four external HP ...
The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is a commercially funded airlock module launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX CRS-21 on 6 December 2020. [3] [4] It was berthed to the Tranquility module on 19 December 2020 by the Canadarm2. [5] The module was built by Nanoracks, Thales Alenia Space, and Boeing. [6]
An airlock on board the Space Shuttle. An airlock [a] is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments.
Experiment Airlock berthed to Nauka, while egressing payloads onto the outside of the station . The airlock, Shk, is designed for a payload with dimensions up to 1,200 mm × 500 mm × 500 mm (47 in × 20 in × 20 in), has a volume of 2.1 m 3, weight of 1050 kg and consumes 1.5 kW of power at the peak.
They then released restraints from one of the arms spare arms for Dextre and replaced thermal insulation on one of the spare gas tanks for the Quest airlock. The arrival of the PMM module marked the completion of the US Orbital Segment. [168] This was the final EVA from the Space Shuttle before its retirement. 160. Expedition 28 EVA 1: Ronald J ...