NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matthew Dominick are currently have quick to perish the International Space Station ( ISS ) . No , they are not come back to Earth , they will be taking the airlock to do an extravehicular activity ( EVA ) , good recognise as a spacewalk , around the place , which is being streamed live today . Part of it will bemaintenanceof the station , but there is also some exciting skill too , admit scooping up some bug to study .
Dyson and Dominick will be murder a radio frequency mathematical group computer hardware from a pallet that is on the outside of the Destiny Laboratory Module . They will be helped in this job by the Canadarm2 – the robotic arm of the station – piloted by NASA Flight Engineers Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps , who practiced the manouver on the computer already .
The spacewalk is due to last around 6.5 hour , and following the scheduled criminal maintenance , the astronaut will be swob the surfaces of the Destiny faculty and also the Quest module as part of a research project calledISS External Microorganisms .
There are sprightliness backing organization vents on those modules and both bacteria and fungi might have found our way out of the ISS . The question is can they survive there ? The samples will be bring down to Earth for detailed analysis . Bacteria on the ISS has already been seento have mutatedinto something very different from its earthly counterpart so scientist are queer about their power to adapt to the coarse environs of space .
This is the first of three EVAs scheduled for this summertime . Although comparatively common , spacewalks are grave , with one in five havingserious incidentsandclose calls . fortuitously the"emergency " on the ISSyesterday , unintentionally broadcast across all its live channels , was actually a medical training pretending , even if it did do a brief panic .
The program begins 6:30 a.m. ET ( 12 pm UTC ) and it can be followed in the video above , or onNASA+ , NASA Television , theNASA app , YouTube , and the agency’swebsite .
