WATCH: The flight of Gemini 4 launched today in 1965 for NASA’s first Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk by Ed White on a four-day orbital mission with commander Jim McDivitt.
Mission Reports
Hague, Koch complete another spacewalk to connect new batteries
With plans for the first all-female spacewalk derailed by suit sizing issues, astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a revised excursion to help fix a solar array battery problem and to connect a second set of replacement batteries as originally planned.
Mission Reports
Spacewalkers accomplish all objectives in six-hour excursion
Two newly arrived space station astronauts, both veteran spacewalkers, suited up and ventured outside the lab complex Thursday to install additional wireless communications gear, to replace a balky camera and its pan-and-tilt mechanism and to remove two suspect hoses in the station’s ammonia coolant system.