NASA announces series of 10 upcoming spacewalks to upgrade the International Space Station, including the first all-female outing. - NBCNewsMACH
Leading off a series of 10 planned spacewalks that will include the first by an all-female crew, a pair of NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Sunday to upgrade the station’s power system.
Sunday’s spacewalk is scheduled to begin around 7:50 a.m. ET and is expected to last 6 1/2 hours. It will be conducted by Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan, who are among six space flyers now aboard the station.The series of planned spacewalks will continue over the next three months, marking a pace that hasn’t been seen since construction of the 925,000-pound orbiting laboratory ended in 2011.
“It’s a really busy time,” Kirk Shireman, NASA’s program manager for the space station, said Friday in a news briefing. “It’ll be exciting and fun. We’re looking forward to it.” Megan McArthur, deputy chief of the space agency’s astronaut office, called the upcoming slate a “spacewalk bonanza,” adding that Koch and fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir would make the first all-female excursion Oct. 21.
The space agency had planned an all-female spacewalk in March, but that outing — which was to have involved Koch and NASA astronaut Anne McClain — was scrapped because there
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