Incredible spacewalk images from NASA of astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew

Anchored to Canadarm2 mobile foot restraints, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew participated in the STS-133 mission's second spacewalk to perform valuable construction and maintenance on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 14-minute spacewalk they tackled a variety of tasks, including venting into space some remaining ammonia from a failed pump module they moved during the mission's first spacewalk. Here are NASA's shots from the expedition - what an incredible experience to have had - these are making me want to go into space more than anything!

Russian Soyuz Spacecraft and the International Space Station backed by the thin blue line of the earth's atmosphere...

Steve Bowen works hard...

Beat this for a profile picture - Steve Bowen poses for the camera...

Look closely and you'll see both astronauts hard at work. This was actually from their first spacewalk...

Alvin Drew emerges from the Quest airlock...

Discovery and Canadian built Dextre are cojoined...

President Barack Obama talks to the team on board Discovery from the Oval Office...

All images are courtesy of NASA

Sign up now for the next Astronomy & Spaceguard Experience break at Holme Lacy House Hotel.

Well today finds me busy working on the content for our next Starlearner Experience Break - we've teamed up with Warner Hotels at their amazing Holme Lacy House Hotel resort in Herefordshire to give guests a whole weekend of galactic fun, learning and viewing through our Celestron telescopes as well as a trip to the Spaceguard Centre at Knighton and keep your eye on Asteroids, comets and Meteoroids. 

I'll be there the whole time to help you discover Saturn's Rings, Jupiter's moons and delve into the Moon's craters and guide everyone through their space black holes of knowledge.

Mrs M enjoys it as there's a lovely spa, as many extra sports and activities as you want to do and delicious food... 

I love meeting people who are into their astronomy - whether they've just started viewing or have been doing it for years the buzz is great. That's what it's all about.

If you've never been on a Star Break before come and experience a weekend away with Herefordshire's dark viewing skies, it would be great to see you there!

Click here to see more information...

Starlearner's fav pics from NASA in Jan 2011

When you have astronauts in space clicking away with their cameras and satellites feeding multiple images back to Earth the results are incredible. Here at Starlearner we LOVE looking at NASA's 'Image A Day' - here are our favourites from January...

Auroral Rocket in Norway

Lining Up the Sun, Moon, and ISS

Tidal Flats and Channels, Long Island, Bahamas

Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands, Russian Federation

If you were in Brasil for New Year's eve you could be in this shot!

Click here to see them all and to find out the background behind each one...

Norwegian image was taken by Kolbjørn Blix Dahle of Andøya Rocket Range.

Sun image was shot by Thierry Legault. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

All other images were taken by the Expedition 26 Crew and provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.