NASA Suspends ISS Battery Swap

Credit: ISS: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s flurry of spacewalks to replace aging batteries on the International Space Station’s (ISS) far port side solar power truss has been interrupted by the discovery of a failed power controller following the second of the five planned excursions, the agency announced Oct. 15. As a result...

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