Miami – Astronauts of the POT Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled for next Thursday, January 30, this year’s second walk in order to maintain the International Space Station (EEI), this time to remove communications teams and look for possible microbes.
A first walk this 2025 was held last Thursday and apparently another that was scheduled for today was postponed for next Thursday.
Although NASA did not clarify the change, on its website warns that the second walk will be in charge of Williams, the station commander, and flight engineer Butch Wilmore.
It details that this week the duo has reviewed the procedures they will use to remove and save radio frequency pieces and clean the external surfaces of the station to test if microbes can live outside the orbital advance.
The walk is scheduled for 8:00 on Thursday, January 30 (13:00 GMT).
On this year’s first walk, on January 16, Williams and astronaut Nick Hague carried out for more than six hours support for assembly, maintenance and updates of the orbital laboratory.
Both completed their main objectives, which included withdrawing and replacing a set of speed gyroscope, installing patches to cover damaged areas of light filters on the X -ray telescope Nicer (Neutron Star Interior Composy Composion Explorer).
They also replaced a reflector device in one of the international coupling adapters.
The couple also reviewed the access areas and connection tools that astronauts will use for the future maintenance of the alpha magnetic spectrometer.
It was the fourth for Hague, the eighth for Williams, and NASA’s 273 maintenance.