AllWomanSpacewalk livestream: Watch live as NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir perform historic spacewalk
and the agency's website with coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the day of the spacewalk. The space agency will broadcast the event—which is expected to take around five-and-a-half hours—in its entirety.
"As a result, we are down some amount of power on that channel, which we consider to be a core channel," Stephanie Schierholz, a spokesperson for NASA, told."The teams want to understand why we've had two of these types of failures in a short period of time—a similar thing happened earlier this year—and if there's a common cause."
Thursday or Friday's spacewalk will be Koch's fourth and Meir's first. They will be the first two women to perform a spacewalk together, despite the fact that the first one took place in 1965.
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