Sunita Williams Space Walk: Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams and her partner Vuch Wilmore have been stranded in space for more than 200 days. However, now news is coming about Sunita Williams that she will come out of the space station and do a space walk. This space walk will be done on 16 January. Do you know what space walk is and when it can be done?
According to the American space agency NASA, whenever an astronaut exits a spacecraft in space, it is called a spacewalk. Actually spacewalk is technically called EVA. Let us tell you that EVA means Extravehicular Activity.
NASA will organize space walk
Let us tell you that American space agency NASA is going to organize a spacewalk for the International Space Station on January 16 and 23. This spacewalk will be held in two phases. NASA’s first spacewalk will take place on January 16. In which Sunita Williams, along with astronaut Nick Hague, will replace the rate gyro assembly at the space station and repair a damaged part of the light filter for the X-ray telescope.
Two @NASA_Astronauts will venture out of the @Space_Station on Jan. 16 and Jan. 23 to complete station upgrades. Get more details about the upcoming spacewalks from @NASA_Johnson experts in a news conference at 2pm ET (1900 UTC) on Friday, Jan. 10: https://t.co/QKYyrkaIAt pic.twitter.com/CrIBoh6ztv
— NASA (@NASA) January 7, 2025
Astronauts will collect samples of microorganisms
This spacewalk will start at 05:30 pm. Apart from this, NASA’s second spacewalk will take place on January 23. In which astronauts will remove the radio antenna from the exterior of the station and collect samples of microorganisms from the surface. Its purpose is to see whether any microorganisms are present in the orbital complex. Let us tell you that this spacewalk will also start at 05:30 pm and will last for about 6.5 hours.
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