Umbilical cable
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An umbilical cable or umbilical is a cable and/or hose that supplies required consumables to an apparatus, like a rocket, or to a person, such as a diver or astronaut. It is named by analogy with an u
Diver with surface-supplied umbilical
Gemini astronaut with umbilical
Umbilical for diver
Umbilical Cable and Surface-supplied Kirby Morgan Dive Helmet
Extravehicular activity
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Extravehicular activity is any activity performed by an astronaut in outer space outside of a spacecraft. This includes spacewalks, lunar or planetary surface exploration, and stand-up EVAs where astr
Umbilical cable
…Early space suits used in Project Gemini in 1965 and 1966 employed umbilicals to the spacecraft to provide suit oxygen and communications during extravehicular activity (EVA). (Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first EVA using a self-contained oxygen backpack, and thus did not require an umbilical.) Later…
Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov works outside the International Space Station on August 3, 2011.
Stephen Robinson riding the Canadarm2 while conducting the first in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle during STS-114 on August 3, 2005. The landmass in the backdrop is the Bari region of Somalia.
Ed White performs the first American spacewalk during Gemini IV.
Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon during the pioneering Apollo 11 mission in 1969.