NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Nick Hague are set to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a spacewalk.
After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA spacesuits, moved through the Quest airlock and into the vacuum of space.
The pictures were taken inside the International Space Station last week, when Sunita Williams and Nick Hague donned spacesuits to carry out “fit checks.”
This event, known as US Spacewalk 91, is Williams' first in 12 years and her eighth overall, while for Hague, it's his fourth venture outside the ISS.
Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent, is preparing for her first spacewalk in over a decade as part of SpaceX's Crew-6 mission. She will address a light leak on the NICER telescope aboard the ISS,
Nasa astronaut Suni Williams, one of two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station, has completed her first spacewalk since arriving.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing's new Starliner capsule last June on what should have been a weeklong test flight. They've been in space ever since.
The spacewalk marked Williams’ eighth such event in her career, while for Hague it was fourth such event. The two astronauts spending around six and a half hours working outside the station.
The US space agency announced Thursday that two astronauts successfully completed a spacewalk to repair the International Space Station (ISS). During the six-hour mission, astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague replaced faulty light filters and reflectors,
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