NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams started a spacewalk at 8:01 a.m. EST on the Worldwide Area Station.
The duo will take away and exchange a fee gyro meeting that helps present orientation management for the station, set up patches to cowl broken areas of sunshine filters for an X-ray telescope referred to as NICER (Neutron star Inside Composition Explorer), and exchange a reflector system used for navigational knowledge on one of many worldwide docking adapters. The pair additionally will examine entry areas and connector instruments that might be used for future upkeep work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Hague is crew member 1 sporting a swimsuit with purple stripes. Williams is spacewalk crew member 2, sporting an unmarked swimsuit.
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