Starliner astronaut conducts spacewalk while stuck aboard ISS
At the time of writing, Williams and ISS crewmate, Nick Hague, are conducting NASA’s first spacewalk in over a year. The pair are scheduled to spend roughly 6.5 hours in the vacuum of space, where they will work on a number of long overdue external repairs and equipment assessments.
Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today
The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, then ready the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for future upgrades," NASA officials wrote in a Jan. 15 blog post.
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Experiments Explained And Spacewalk Time-Lapse: SpaceX Polaris Dawn Crew's On-Orbit EventThe Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted during the mission. Also, see a time-lapse of Isaacman's spacewalk. Credit: ...
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Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalkNASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the ...
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has successfully completed her eighth spacewalk, bringing her total extravehicular activity ...
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the International Space Station transit the Sun. The NASA astronauts were ...
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