Astronaut Nick Hague will make another spacewalk on Friday. The Kansas native will replace one of two women who were scheduled for that spacewalk.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch (center) assists fellow astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Anne McClain in their U.S. spacesuits shortly before they begin the first spacewalk of their careers. Hague and McClain worked outside, in the vacuum of space, for six hours and 39 minutes on March 22, 2019, to upgrade the International Space Station's power storage capacity.
Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to be the first all-female crews to conduct a spacewalk at the International Space Station.
The problem, according to NASA, is spacesuit availability. NASA said both women require a medium-size suit torso, but only one can be made ready by Friday.
Instead, Koch and Hague will make the spacewalk, which is scheduled for 7:20 a.m. Friday.
During that seven-hour spacewalk, Hague and Koch will install new batteries for a pair of the station's solar arrays.
McClain is now scheduled to conduct the crew's third and final spacewalk on Monday, April 8 - along with Canadian Astronuat David Saint-Jacques.
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2019-03-30 03:10:14Z
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