LIVE FROM SPACE: Check out this helmet cam view from @AstroBehnken during today’s spacewalk. Using the ‘pistol grip tool,’ or PGT, he loosens bolts on hardware outside the @Space_Station .
The crew will switch their spacesuits to battery power at 7:35am ET. Terms to know: 🔽 -Egress = exit -EVA = Extravehicular Activity (spacewalk) -PGT = Pistol Grip Tool (drill) -BRT = Body Restraint Tether -APFR = Articulating Portable Foot Restraint
Watching today’s spacewalk? Here are some terms to know as two @NASA_Astronauts work outside @Space_Station : Ingress = enter EVA = Extravehicular Activity (spacewalk) PGT = Pistol Grip Tool (drill) BRT = Body Restraint Tether APFR = Articulating Portable Foot Restraint
New to spacewalks? Here’s some useful lingo: ▪️Ingress = enter ▪️EVA = Extravehicular Activity (spacewalk) ▪️EMU = Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit) ▪️PGT = Pistol Grip Tool (drill) ▪️BRT = Body Restraint Tether (cord)
@AstroDrewMorgan @CERNA @ISS_ResearchM @esaspaceflightS3 : I used a PGT (Pistol Grip Tool) to torque down the bolts of the UTTPS (Upgraded Tracker Thermal Pump System) during the installation. AMS3: ho usato il PGT per avvitare i bulloni durante l’installazione della UTTPS.
#ToolTimeTuesday Join astronaut John Grunsfeld & EVA manager Russ Werneth in this week's Hubble Tool Time to learn about the pistol grip tool developed for Hubble’s second servicing mission in 1997, a tool that astronauts now use on almost every spacewalk:
EVA-53: Good news, Adaptor Plate fans - the first of three has been soft-docked. A bit of PGT (Pistol Grip Tool - amazing space screwdriver) action and then it'll be hard-docked.
It wouldn't be an ISS EVA without some challenging Bolts. PGT (Pistol Grip Tool) in use to try and work this particular bolt.
It is the PGT, or Pistol Grip Tool.
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Not a laser gun for hostile aliens but our pistol-grip tool – a screwdriver for spacewalks. You might be disappointed… me too! ;) #Proxima
This pistol grip tool, similar to a power drill, is being used to install batteries on : #spacewalk
Veteran spacewalker @AstroMarshburn talks about pistol grip tool spacewalkers use in space.
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