Meir, Adenot Conduct 6th All-Female ISS Spacewalk for 6.5-Hour Maintenance Mission
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Updated · Space.com · Sep 1
Meir, Adenot Conduct 6th All-Female ISS Spacewalk for 6.5-Hour Maintenance Mission
3 articles · Updated · Space.com · Sep 1
Summary
Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot were set to leave the ISS around 1230 GMT on the sixth all-female station spacewalk, with NASA live coverage starting at 1100 GMT.
The roughly 6.5-hour excursion centers on replacing a retroreflector on Harmony's forward port to aid spacecraft rendezvous and docking, then installing data-relay jumper cables, preparing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer radiator for later work and swapping a high-definition camera.
Adenot, wearing red stripes as crew member 1, is making her third spacewalk just two weeks after becoming the first French woman to perform an EVA; Meir, in an unmarked suit as crew member 2, is making her seventh.
Meir also took part in the first three all-female ISS spacewalks with Christina Koch in 2019 and 2020, and her seventh EVA moves her to third among female NASA astronauts behind Peggy Whitson's 10 and Suni Williams' nine.