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Two astronauts will conduct historical past’s sixth all-female spacewalk as we speak (Sept. 1), and you’ll watch it dwell.
NASA’s Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency will enterprise outdoors the International Space Station (ISS) at round 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) on an tour anticipated to final about 6.5 hours.
You’ll be able to watch it right here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency. Protection will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and the European Area Company’s Sophie Adenot work collectively contained in the Worldwide Area Station’s Quest airlock throughout spacesuit match and leak checks. | Credit score: NASA
Throughout as we speak’s spacewalk, Meir and Adenot “will substitute a retroreflector on the ahead port of the area station’s Concord module to help spacecraft navigation throughout rendezvous and docking operations,” NASA officers mentioned in a media advisory.
“After putting in the reflector, the crew will work to put in jumper cables for the data-relay methods, put together the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s radiator for future upkeep, and substitute a high-definition digicam on the station’s truss,” they added.
(The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a $2 billion particle physics experiment mounted to the outside of the ISS that research cosmic rays and hunts for mysterious dark matter, amongst different duties.)
Adenot shall be “crew member 1” on as we speak’s spacewalk and can put on a swimsuit with purple stripes, NASA officers mentioned. Meir will put on an unmarked swimsuit and function “crew member 2.”
It is going to be the third spacewalk for Adenot, who two weeks ago grew to become the primary French girl ever to carry out an extravehicular exercise (EVA). It is going to be the seventh for Meir, which can put her third amongst feminine NASA astronauts behind Peggy Whitson (10 EVAs) and Suni Williams (9).
There have been simply 5 all-female ISS spacewalks so far, and Meir has been a part of three of them — the primary three, the truth is. She carried out these with fellow NASA astronaut (and Artemis II crewmember) Christina Koch on Oct. 18, 2019, Jan. 15, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2020.
