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November 28, 2025

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Video: Expedition 50 spacewalk highlights

January 6, 2017 Justin Ray

Video highlight reel of Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Peggy Whitson conducting six-hour 32-minute spacewalk on Jan. 6.

Video: Narrated preview of Jan. 6 spacewalk

January 6, 2017 Justin Ray

This is a narrated animation previewing the steps and activities to be performed by the International Space Station astronauts during the battery replacement spacewalk on Jan. 6.

Video: NASA officials preview space station battery replacement spacewalks

January 6, 2017 Justin Ray

From the Johnson Space Center in Houston, officials from NASA brief reporters on two upcoming spacewalks outside the International Space Station to replace aging batteries in the outpost’s power grid.

Astronauts set for Friday spacewalk

January 6, 2017 William Harwood

Two astronauts plan to venture outside the International Space Station Friday, taking over from earlier robotic arm operations to help replace a set of batteries used to store power from one of the lab’s four sets of solar arrays.

Space station battery work starts New Year’s Eve

January 1, 2017 William Harwood

Working over the New Year holiday weekend, robot arm operators at the Johnson Space Center will begin a complex procedure to replace 12 aging batteries in the International Space Station’s solar power system with six state-of-the-art lithium-ion power packs, a multi-step process over the next two weeks that will require two spacewalks to complete.

Spending Christmas in space

December 24, 2016 Justin Ray

A Christmas Eve reading from the book of Genesis by the Apollo 8 astronauts — commander Frank Borman, lunar module pilot Bill Anders and command module pilot Jim Lovell — from lunar orbit in 1968.

Japanese HTV makes battery delivery to International Space Station

December 13, 2016 Stephen Clark

Four days after a picture-perfect blastoff from southern Japan, a cargo-carrying supply freighter arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday with 4.5 tons of equipment, food, clothing and experiments.

Japan’s HTV supply ship blasts off for space station

December 9, 2016 Stephen Clark

A Japanese H-2B rocket launched toward the International Space Station on Friday with a fresh set of high-power batteries, critical parts for the research lab’s carbon dioxide scrubber, and several tons of food, water and provisions.

Flight history of Japan’s HTV resupply spacecraft

December 9, 2016 Stephen Clark

Japan’s H-2 Transfer Vehicle has accomplished five flights to the International Space Station, delivering tons of food, clothing and crew provisions, instruments to look at ozone chemistry and investigate dark matter, and critical hardware to keep the research complex operating.

Live coverage: Japanese HTV resupply freighter captured by station robotic arm

December 9, 2016 Stephen Clark

Japan’s sixth automated logistics vehicle packed with 4.5 tons of supplies approached the International Space Station for a laser-guided rendezvous, culminating with grapple of the HTV cargo craft by the station’s robotic arm at 1037 GMT (5:37 a.m. EST) Tuesday.