The first spacewalk of the year is an all-female affair, NASA says. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are replacing batteries on solar arrays on the outside of the ISS during the spacewalk, which got underway early this morning.
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are scheduled to replace batteries on solar arrays on the outside of the International Space Station during the first spacewalk of 2020. You can watch live here. They are the same astronauts who made history after successfully completing the very first all-female spacewalk in October. That came months after a planned spacewalk with an all-women crew had to be canceled in March because of a lack of suitable spacesuits.
After an historic all-female spacewalk, astronaut has moon dreamNASA said that Meir and Koch would be replacing nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries that store power generated by the solar arrays on the ISS's port truss. They are scheduled to conduct a second spacewalk on Monday to finish the battery replacement. Read MoreThese will be the second and third spacewalks for Meir and the fifth and sixth for Koch.
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