“The world champion broadcasts where she wants and when she wants”: the radio of an Argentine taxi sneaks into a NASA spacewalk

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2023-04-21 10:43:15

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This curious event occurred during the first activity outside the orbital complex by cosmonauts this year.

A spacewalk on the ISS.NASA TV
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Roscosmos cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri PetelinThey were on a space walk when NASA requested absolute silence. Nothing was heard in the broadcast when suddenly, “150 did you say, from Irigoyen?” The unmistakable Argentine accent betrayed the origin of the audio.

The ISS was flying over Argentina and yes, a radio station had slipped into the communication channel. Quickly, NASA TV He corrected the error and apologized, but the intrusion did not go unnoticed by the Argentine journalist who was observing the promenade. Manuel Mazzanti.

The communicator did not take long to share the video fragment on his networks, which generated a wave of reactions in Argentina, with the classic humor that characterizes them.

“We are so powerful that we got to NASA”, “The world champion broadcasts wherever and whenever she wants” or “We are so powerful that we got to NASA”, were some of the comments that could be read on the networks before the ruling in communications. This curious event was caused by interference, to which was added that the taxi driver inadvertently connected to the NASA frequency.

Prokopyev and Petelin completed their main objectives, which included the relocation of a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Russian science module. Science with the help of the European robotic arm operator cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

This is the first activity outside the orbital complex by cosmonauts this year, after a pause caused by the depressurization of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.

This was the fourth spacewalk in Prokopyev’s career and the second for Petelin. It is the third spacewalk on the station in 2023 and the 260th spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades, NASA reports.

The two cosmonauts of Roscosmos They will also conduct a spacewalk on Tuesday April 25 to move an experimental airlock from Rassvet to Nauka. An additional spacewalk is planned on Thursday, May 4 to deploy the radiator at Nauka and connect the mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic lines.

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