Summary
An update on the recent all-female spacewalk aboard the International Space Station and a preview of the research payloads arriving on the upcoming SpaceX CRS-29 mission.
Highlights
All-Female Spacewalk Success00:00:04
NASA astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara completed US EVA 89, the 269th spacewalk for station maintenance. They successfully replaced a trundle bearing assembly to ensure the station's solar arrays continue to rotate and track the sun correctly.
Upcoming SpaceX CRS-29 Research00:00:44
The SpaceX CRS-29 mission is set to deliver critical hardware to the ISS. This includes ILLUMA-T, which will demonstrate two-way laser communications to increase data transfer rates, and AWE, an instrument designed to study atmospheric gravity waves to better understand space weather and climate patterns.