NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan concluded today’s spacewalk at 2:59 p.m. EDT. During the six-hour and 32-minute spacewalk, the two astronauts successfully installed the second of two international docking adapters (IDAs).
The IDAs will be used for the future arrivals of Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon commercial crew spacecraft. NASA’s commercial crew partnership with Boeing and SpaceX will restore launches of American astronauts from American soil on American rockets and maximize the time U.S. crews can dedicate to scientific research and technological advances aboard the orbiting laboratory to enable the agency’s ambitious goals for the Artemis lunar exploration program and future missions to the Moon and Mars. Regular human space transportation to the space station is a critical step to opening the space station for commercial business to enable the growth of the U.S. commercial space sector and the development of a robust low-Earth orbit economy.
The spacewalkers also completed additional routing for the station’s wireless internet.
Space station crew members have spent a total of 56 days, 23 hours, and 26 minutes during 218 spacewalks in support of station assembly, maintenance and upgrades. It was the fifth spacewalk in 2019, and the first for Morgan. During three spacewalks, Hague has now spent a total of 19 hours and 56 minutes outside the space station.
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Congratulations to everyone. Glad all are safe.
How well will this new docking area accept the U.K. Skylon ?
Commercial crew vehicles from Boeing and SpaceX are the only spacecraft currently designed to dock to the International Docking Adapters at the space station.
Views from helmet cameras more than compensated for the sometime poor quality exterior cameras.
This is awesome. If they ever allow civilians to go into space, sign me up!
This is awesome !
The era of commercial space is coming.
Congratulations on your success.
Great work .. congratulations
Been streaming the live video last night at GMT+8 Philippines & i really enjoyed ! Congrats NASA!
fantastic transmission, we can see all the details of the placement of the space suit, astronauts leave and return from the station through the hatches , and outside services performed. Better than any of the fiction movies I’ve ever seen.
Will Artemis be capable of docking with ISS?
Commercial crew vehicles from Boeing and SpaceX are the only spacecraft currently designed to dock to the International Docking Adapters at the space station.