Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today

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 exterior 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 possibly can 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).

a woman in a black polo shirt helps a smiling woman put on a white spacesuit aboard the space station — 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. (Picture credit score: NASA)

Throughout as we speak’s spacewalk, Meir and Adenot “will change a retroreflector on the ahead port of the area station’s Concord module to assist spacecraft navigation throughout rendezvous and docking operations,” NASA officers stated in a media advisory.

“After putting in the reflector, the crew will work to put in jumper cables for the data-relay techniques, put together the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s radiator for future upkeep, and change 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 might be “crew member 1” on as we speak’s spacewalk and can put on a swimsuit with crimson stripes, NASA officers stated. Meir will put on an unmarked swimsuit and function “crew member 2.”

Will probably be the third spacewalk for Adenot, who two weeks ago turned the primary French lady ever to carry out an extravehicular exercise (EVA). Will probably be the seventh for Meir, which is able to 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.