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<\/div>ISS Success<\/h2>
It wasn’t the spacewalk that was planned, but it was a success nonetheless.<\/p>
On Friday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch left the relative safety of the International Space Station’s (ISS) interior to embark on a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk<\/a> that wrapped up at 2:27 p.m. EDT.<\/p> Astronaut Anne McClain was originally supposed to join Koch on this ISS spacewalk, which would have made it the first to feature only female astronauts<\/a>.<\/p> A last-minute equipment issue<\/a> led to Hague filling in for his colleague, but Koch’s participation in the walk is still worth celebrating — she’s now just the fourteenth woman to take part in a spacewalk.<\/p> During the spacewalk — ISS’s 215th to date — the duo replaced the six nickel-hydrogen batteries that previously powered one pair of the ISS’s solar arrays with three more powerful lithium-ion batteries.<\/p> They also completed several other tasks designed to facilitate future upgrades, according to a NASA news release<\/a>.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> NASA Astronauts Complete 215th Spacewalk at Station<\/a> [NASA]<\/p> More on spacewalks:<\/strong> NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post NASA Announces Successful Completion of ISS Spacewalk<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> See more here: ISS Success It wasn\u2019t the spacewalk that was planned, but it was a success nonetheless. On Friday, NASA astronauts\u00a0Nick Hague\u00a0and\u00a0Christina Koch left the relative safety of the International Space Station\u2019s (ISS) interior to embark on a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk that wrapped up at 2:27 p.m. EDT Continue reading Substitute Spacewalker<\/h2>
Battery Swap<\/h2>
NASA Announces Successful Completion of ISS Spacewalk<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"