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October 18, 2019. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir waves at the camera during a spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch (out of frame). They ventured into the vacuum of space for seven hours and 17 minutes to swap a failed battery charge-discharge unit (BCDU) with a spare during the first all-woman spacewalk. The BCDU regulates the charge to the batteries that collect and distribute solar power to the orbiting lab's systems.
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Mark Kelly: References & Edit History

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  • Erik Gregersen
    Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the Astrophysical Journal. Prior to that, he worked at McMaster University on the ODIN radio astronomy satellite project. 

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: NPR - Senator Mark Kelly is in a tough Senate reelection bid in swing state Arizona. Dec 12, 2024
Add new Web site: United States Air Force - Mark D. Kelly. Jun 21, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 03, 2024
Anniversary information added. Feb 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Space.com - Biography of Mark Kelly. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of Mark Kelly. Jun 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Astronautix - Mark Kelly. May 10, 2023
Add new Web site: NASA - Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center - Biography of Mark E. Kelly. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Official SIte of Mark Kelly. Jan 16, 2023
Noted that he assumed his seat in the Senate. Dec 09, 2020
Article title changed from “Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly” to “Mark Kelly.” Article revised and updated. Nov 18, 2020
Noted that Mark Kelly was elected to the U.S. Senate. Nov 04, 2020
Noted that Mark Kelly announced he was running for the U.S. Senate. Feb 14, 2019
Added Scott Kelly's memoir, Endurance. Oct 17, 2017
Updated for the end of Scott Kelly's nearly one-year mission. Mar 02, 2016
Updated for launch of Soyuz TMA-16M. Information about year-long space flight added. Mar 27, 2015
Photographs of STS-134 crew and of Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko added. Mar 27, 2015
Material about Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords founding Americans for Responsible Solutions and Scott Kelly's scheduled 1-year flight to the ISS added. Mar 05, 2013
Date of STS-134 landing added. Information about Mark Kelly leaving NASA and the U.S. Navy and about Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope added. Jan 30, 2012
Expedition 26 ended on March 16, 2011. STS-134 launched on May 16, 2011, with Giffords in attendance. May 18, 2011
Photographs of Scott and Mark Kelly added. May 18, 2011
Information added about delays to STS-134, the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords, and NASA's appointment of a backup commander for STS-134. Feb 01, 2011
New article added. Dec 06, 2010
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