NASA, ESA Astronauts Ready for Tuesday’s Antenna Swap Spacewalk
The Expedition 75 crew has completed preparations and mission managers are go for a spacewalk to swap out a high-speed antenna outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. Meanwhile, there was still time on Monday’s research schedule for cardiac research, artificial intelligence tests, and Earth observations. The post NASA, ESA Astronauts Ready for Tuesday’s Antenna Swap Spacewalk appeared…
NASA and ESA astronauts, Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot, have completed preparations and are ready for a spacewalk on Tuesday to replace a high-speed antenna on the International Space Station. The Expedition 75 crew has finished their research schedule, which included cardiac research, artificial intelligence tests, and Earth observations.
The spacewalkers will swap the old antenna at 8:35 a.m. EDT, replacing it with a spare on the Z1 truss segment. Once outside the Quest airlock, Menon and Adenot will connect the new antenna to the station's power and data systems. Flight engineers Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir will monitor the mission and operate the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The other three crew members, cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev, Pyotr Dubrov, and Anna Kikina, continue to conduct science experiments and maintain the station.
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