NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV While most NASA spacewalks at the International Space Station are for upgrade or maintenance work, the one taking place on Thursday, June 13, has a rather differ
ent objective — to find out if there are any living organisms on the exterior of the orbital outpost.
Related NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick will spend some of their time during this week’s spacewalk collecting samples for analysis in a bid to better understand the ability of microorganisms to survive and reproduce on the outside of the ISS. The pair will also complete the removal of a faulty electronics box, called a radio frequency group, from a communications antenna on the starboard truss of the space station, NASA said.
NASA will offer a live stream of the preparations for the spacewalk, as well as the spacewalk itself. The coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. ET , with the spacewalk itself set to start at 8 a.m.
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