New Delhi:
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams stepped out of the International Space Station for a spacewalk with her colleague Nick Hague on Thursday. American space agency NASA has given this information. This is Williams’ first spacewalk in 12 years and the eighth of his career. This is Hague’s fourth spacewalk. Hague served as Spacewalk Crew Member 1 and wore a suit with red stripes. Sunita Williams served as Spacewalk Crew Member 2. He wore a suit without any marks.
Earlier, NASA said that both the astronauts are currently working for maintenance and replacement of hardware. Also said, “NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Sunita Williams are stepping outside the space station to perform station upgrades, including repairs to our NICER (Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope.” The mission is named US Spacewalk 91. given.
What did NASA say?
In a blog post, NASA revealed that Williams and Hague will work to replace a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the station and apply patches to cover damaged areas of the light filter for NICER. Is.
They will also replace the reflector device used for navigational data on one of the international docking adapters.
Another spacewalk on January 23
In addition, both astronauts will examine their approach area and connector tools, which will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
NASA has also given information about the second spacewalk, which will start on January 23 at 8:15 am.
Williams stuck in space for several months
Williams flew to the space station in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft with astronaut Barry Wilmore. Initially he was expected to return in 9 days. However, she has not been able to return yet. Both are now expected to return in March. They were scheduled to return in February 2025, but this was also postponed due to the delay in the SpaceX Crew-10 mission.
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