Scott Kelly during spacewalk. Credits: NASA
Update: The spacewalk is now confirmed for Monday 21 December.
A mobile transporter got stuck on the outside of the International Space Station and a spacewalk is planned for NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly to move the transporter to where it needs to be. The spacewalk should last around three hours with the astronauts taking the time to inspect the area and possibly perform more tasks.
The goal is to do the spacewalk on Monday but Tuesday is also a possibility if the earlier date would disrupt science experiments too much.
The decision to do the spacewalk should be taken on Sunday by NASA Space Station officials.
Tim Peake would be heavily involved in the spacewalk as inside support to help his colleagues don their spacesuits and monitor their progress for mission control.
Tim Kopra during spacewalk in 2009. Credits: NASA
Discussion: 4 comments
Tim, hope this is you soon! Fingers crossed that you will get to do an EVA over the next 6 months. Great to see you talking love today and enjoying space! Take care.
Great to know the guys will have solid dependable British support for this dangerous yet deceptively easy looking activity. Tim, best of British and more power to your elbow!
Must be the icing on the cake. Heck of a cake.
Fingers crossed Tim gets a chance to do this – the first spacewalk in history by a British citizen would not be debatable – but it must be a two-edged sword despite all the training. Not least that an EVA is only justified to fix something fairly serious. Hope whatever it is is not too serious!
Hopefully well see a British Spacewalk very soon..love seeing what you get up to on the ISS