NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will spend more than three hours repairing a broken battery charger outside the International Space Station while all four men aboard the station wait inside.
Adrianna RodriguezCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Men have floated out the hatch on all 420 spacewalks conducted over the past half-century.NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the orbiting outpost at about 7:50 a.m. ET Friday and spend over five hours replacing a broken battery charger, or BCDU. NASA will livestream the spacewalk starting at 6:30 a.m. ET.
The units regulate how much energy flows from the station's massive solar panels to battery units, which are used to provide power during nighttime passes around Earth. Three previous spacewalks had been planned to replace lithium-ion batteries, but those will be rescheduled until the latest BCDU issue is resolved.
The battery charger failed after Koch and a male crewmate installed new batteries outside the space station last week. NASA put the remaining battery replacements on hold to fix the problem and moved up the women's planned spacewalk by three days.Friday's spacewalk will be Koch's fourth and Meir's first.
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