{"id":65129,"date":"2026-09-01T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=50c75360581b9d285c8588d8ae78a1c5"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:45:07","slug":"watch-2-astronauts-take-6th-ever-all-female-spacewalk-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/09\/01\/watch-2-astronauts-take-6th-ever-all-female-spacewalk-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet ><div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-HQOp1-LpU0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>Two astronauts will conduct history's sixth all-female spacewalk today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live.<\/p><p>NASA's Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22562-european-space-agency.html\"><u>European Space Agency<\/u><\/a> will venture outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\"><u>International Space Station<\/u><\/a> (ISS) at around 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) on an excursion expected to last about 6.5 hours.<\/p><p>You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-HQOp1-LpU0\" ><u>directly via the agency<\/u><\/a>. Coverage will start at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"fWSVjeR9TCkcS3o8zkGK8N\" name=\"iss074e0432716~large\" alt=\"a woman in a black polo shirt helps a smiling woman put on a white spacesuit aboard the space station\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/fWSVjeR9TCkcS3o8zkGK8N.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and the European Space Agency's Sophie Adenot work together inside the International Space Station\u2019s Quest airlock during spacesuit fit and leak checks. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: NASA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>During today's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewalk-history.html\"><u>spacewalk<\/u><\/a>, Meir and Adenot \"will replace a retroreflector on the forward port of the space station's Harmony module to support spacecraft navigation during rendezvous and docking operations,\" NASA officials said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-spacewalk-for-station-maintenance-live-coverage-planned\/\" ><u>media advisory<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><p>\"After installing the reflector, the crew will work to install jumper cables for the data-relay systems, prepare the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's radiator for future maintenance, and replace a high-definition camera on the station's truss,\" they added.<\/p><p>(The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/11716-astronauts-space-station-astrophysics-spectrometer-ams.html\"><u>Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer<\/u><\/a> is a $2 billion particle physics experiment mounted to the exterior of the ISS that studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/32644-cosmic-rays.html\"><u>cosmic rays<\/u><\/a> and hunts for mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/20930-dark-matter.html\"><u>dark matter<\/u><\/a>, among other tasks.)<\/p><p>Adenot will be \"crew member 1\" on today's spacewalk and will wear a suit with red stripes, NASA officials said. Meir will wear an unmarked suit and serve as \"crew member 2.\"<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/zrf71t6M.html\" id=\"zrf71t6M\" title=\"Spacewalkers run out of time to complete install of new ISS antenna \u2013 NASA explains\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>It will be the third spacewalk for Adenot, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/watch-european-astronaut-make-history-during-spacewalk-today\"><u>two weeks ago<\/u><\/a> became the first French woman ever to perform an extravehicular activity (EVA). It will be the seventh for Meir, which will put her third among female NASA astronauts behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/38691-peggy-whitson-astronaut-biography.html\"><u>Peggy Whitson<\/u><\/a> (10 EVAs) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/human-spaceflight\/record-setting-astronaut-suni-williams-retires-from-nasa-after-27-years\"><u>Suni Williams<\/u><\/a> (nine).<\/p><p>There have been just five all-female ISS spacewalks to date, and Meir has been part of three of them \u2014 the first three, in fact. She conducted those with fellow NASA astronaut (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-2-humans-moon-orbit\"><u>Artemis II<\/u><\/a> crewmember) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/christina-koch\"><u>Christina Koch<\/u><\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/first-all-woman-spacewalk-nasa-success.html\"><u>Oct. 18, 2019<\/u><\/a>, Jan. 15, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2020.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and France&#8217;s Sophie Adenot will conduct the sixth all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Sept. 1), and you can watch it live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[959,2796,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-space-station","category-missions","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65153,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65129\/revisions\/65153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}