NASA Updates Preview Briefing for International Space Station Spacewalks, Live Coverage

Specialists from NASA will review two forthcoming spacewalks outside the International Space Station to proceed with moves up to the circling research center's capacity framework in an instructions at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 27, at the office's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The instructions date changed due to the postponed dispatch of a Japanese payload shuttle to the space station.


Live inclusion of the preparation will air on NASA Television and the organization's site. Media wishing to take part in the preparation in person should ask for qualifications from the Johnson newsroom no later than 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26. Media inspired by taking part by telephone must contact the newsroom by 1:45 p.m. Sept. 27.

Members in the preparation are:

Kenneth Todd, International Space Station chief for Operations and Integration

Mary Lawrence, spacewalk flight executive

Jaclyn Kagey, lead spacewalk officer

The hardware to be introduced will be conveyed on a Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle load make, which currently is focused for dispatch at 1:52 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 22. Live NASA Television inclusion starts at 1:30 p.m.

The conveyed hardware establishment deal with the space station really will start on Earth, when ground controllers utilize the station's automated arm to supplant old nickel-hydrogen batteries on the port support of the complex with six new lithium-particle batteries.

Station Commander Drew Feustel of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) will wander outside the Quest airtight chamber Sunday, Sept. 30, to introduce the connector plates for the new batteries, finishing the moves up to two station control channels.

With this spacewalk - the tenth of his vocation - Feustel will tie previous space traveler Michael Lopez-Alegria for most spacewalks by a U.S. space traveler, and is relied upon to outperform him for generally spacewalking time to wind up the untouched driving U.S. spacewalker and second generally speaking in spaceflight history. It will be Gerst's second spacewalk.

The correct date of the second spacewalk is under audit, yet it will happen amid the following station team pivot, Expedition 57. Space travelers will utilize that spacewalk to finish the power framework repair on the port support.

NASA will give inclusion of the spacewalks, each normal to last around six-and-a-half hours, on NASA TV and the organization's site. NASA TV inclusion on Sept. 30 will start at 7 a.m. with the spacewalk anticipated that would start at around 8:40 a.m. These spacewalks will be the 213th and 214th in help of station gathering, support and redesigns; and the eighth and ninth outside the station this year.

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