Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fifth all-female spacewalk in historical past as we speak (Might 1), and you may watch the motion dwell.
Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will head exterior the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) as we speak at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk anticipated to final about 6.5 hours.
You possibly can watch the extravehicular exercise (EVA) dwell right here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency. Protection will start at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT).
Ayers and McClain “will relocate an area station communications antenna and set up a mounting bracket forward of the set up of a further set of Worldwide Area Station Rollout Photo voltaic Arrays, additionally referred to as IROSA,” NASA officers wrote in a spacewalk preview.
“The arrays will enhance energy era functionality by as much as 30%, growing the station’s complete out there energy from 160 kilowatts to as much as 215 kilowatts,” they added. “The arrays can be put in on a future spacewalk following their arrival on a SpaceX Dragon industrial resupply providers mission later this 12 months.”
This can be simply the fifth all-female spacewalk, and the primary one since November 2023. The very first female-only EVA was performed by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir in October 2019.
Right now’s spacewalk would be the third for McClain, the primary for Ayers and the 275th total within the historical past of the ISS. Each ladies arrived on the orbiting lab on March 16 on SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission.
