The first of three exterior walks to the International Space Station (ISS), featuring residents of the orbital station, is scheduled for next Thursday and will be carried out by NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick. The pair will exit the station’s Quest airlock to complete the removal of a faulty electronics box, called a radio frequency cluster, from a communications antenna on the space station’s starboard structure.
Both astronauts too They will collect samples to analyze them and understand the capacity of the microorganisms to survive and reproduce outside the orbital laboratory. This will be the 90th spacewalk for American astronauts and will be the fourth for Dyson and the first for Dominick.
NASA astronauts aboard the ISS They will carry out three spacewalks scheduled for June. NASA will discuss upcoming spacewalks this Tuesday and will announce the names of the crew members participating in US spacewalks 91 and 92 once the first one is completed and will provide additional coverage details.
For the second spacewalk, astronauts will remove and replace the external high-definition camera located on port nine of the camera in the orbiting laboratory. This camera is one of several that provide external views of the space station. Additionally, crew members will complete a cable connection tightness check for the alpha magnetic spectrometer, a particle physics experiment outside the station. If not completed during the 90th US spacewalk, astronauts will begin by collecting samples of microorganisms.
For the third spacewalk, crew members will remove and replace a gyroscope assembly, which provides data on the orientation of the space station. Astronauts will then place a bracket, called a modification kit, in preparation for future installation of the International Space Station’s next deployable solar array from the orbiting laboratory into power channel 2A on the port truss.
