NASA is about to lead its first spacewalk since March 2022, with two American astronauts embarking on their first excurions outside the space station.
NASA is about to lead its first spacewalk since March 2022.
The space agency paused extravehicular activities (EVAs) at the station to give it time to investigate an incident during a walk where a thin layer of moisture appeared inside the helmet of astronaut Matthias Maurer.
The German astronaut was OK, but NASA described it as a “close call” and decided to halt NASA-led spacewalks at the station so it could determine what caused the incident. In the meantime, five other spacewalks have taken place at the station, involving mostly cosmonauts and organized by NASA’s Russian counterpart, Roscosmos.
