# The Most Dangerous Space Walk

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Real Engineering
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5aK7NCp-U
- **Дата:** 28.01.2026
- **Длительность:** 2:49
- **Просмотры:** 448,983

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5aK7NCp-U) Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00)

This was potentially the most dangerous repair mission ever undertaken in space. This is Dr. Scott Parisinski and he's strapped by his feet trying to fix a high voltage solar panel that was struck by space debris. The first obstacle was distance. The torn array was located far from the normal reach of the Canid Arm 2. The only option was to attach an astronaut to the long boom used to inspect the bottom of the shuttle. And this carried a lot of risk. The solar panels were still live and they're a lot more wobbly than you'd imagine. And so there were concerns that there could be arcing of electricity, high voltage, high current from the solar panel into my space suit. And of course, my spacuit has a Kevlar outer, but there are metal wrist disconnects and other metal parts of my spacuit that could allow for electricity to conduct into the 100% oxygen environment of my spacuit, which would be very flammable. It'd be a very bad day for me. So, uh, engineers very graciously, you know, thought about my safety. So, we ended up wrapping the metal parts of our space suits. — From the images and from talking to the astronauts, the team on the ground had already figured out the problem and a potential solution. The guide wire running along the solar panels had been damaged. So, Scott needed to get out there, cut the guide wire, and reconnect them with a MacGyver repair using materials available on the ISS. And then I have here actually one of the engineered cuff links that was used on 1G mock-ups of the solar panel uh here in Houston. So this is uh actually what it looked like. This is one of the shorter ones and we had a couple of much longer ones as well that I installed. This allowed me to poke this through a hole in the solar panel on one end, one side of the damage, and then this one ended up going on the other side, and then the load path could be uh absorbed by this piece of wire. But the cool thing, the really cool thing, and this is one of my prized possessions, this was given to me by the engineer who invented this repair. And this is actually two pieces of cardboard from a Domino's pizza box. They were working around the clock. They worked for like 72 hours straight. But uh this engineer had this idea for these cuff links and he cut a Domino's pizza box, tied it together with a couple pieces of string and he threw it on the table and said, "Here, what do you think about this? " And that became the uh the solution to save the solar panel. Dr. Perisinski helped us document the entire history of the construction of the International Space Station in an hour-ong documentary with every step of construction animated along the way.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/49023*