{"id":6698,"date":"2019-10-16T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:50:45","slug":"nasa-moves-up-date-of-historic-first-all-female-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/nasa-moves-up-date-of-historic-first-all-female-spacewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA moves up date of historic first all-female spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NASA_spacewalk_hague_mcclain_koch.jpg\" alt=\"NASA moves up date of historic first all-female spacewalk\" class=\"wp-image-6699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NASA_spacewalk_hague_mcclain_koch.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NASA_spacewalk_hague_mcclain_koch-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NASA_spacewalk_hague_mcclain_koch-435x221.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><figcaption>Christina Koch (center) assists fellow astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Anne McClain in their U.S. spacesuits shortly before they begin the first spacewalk of their careers. Hague and McClain worked outside, in the vacuum of space, for six hours and 39 minutes on March 22, 2019, to upgrade the International Space Station\u2019s power storage capacity. Image credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture\noutside the space station at 7:50 a.m. Thursday, October 17 or Friday, October\n18. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html#public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA\nTelevision<\/a> and the agency\u2019s &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.&nbsp; The two were originally scheduled to make\ntheir historic all-female space walk on October 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space station managers had postponed three spacewalks\npreviously scheduled for this and next week to install new batteries in order\nto first replace a faulty battery charge\/discharge unit (BCDU). The BCDU failed\nto activate following the October 11 installation of new lithium-ion batteries\non the space station\u2019s truss. The three spacewalks previously planned to\ncontinue the installation of additional lithium-ion batteries will be\nrescheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Also see:\u00a0<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/historic-first-all-female-spacewalk-postponed-due-to-spacesuit-availability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Historic first all-female spacewalk postponed due to spacesuit\navailability<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/nasa-renames-critical-software-facility-in-honor-of-hidden-figures-katherine-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA renames critical software facility in honor of \u2018Hidden\nFigures\u2019 Katherine Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BCDU failure has not impacted station operations, safety\nof the crew, or the ongoing experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory, many in\npreparation for future human missions to the Moon and Mars. The station\u2019s\noverall power supply, which is fed by four sets of batteries and solar arrays,\nremains enough for all operations. However, the faulty power unit does prevent\na set of batteries installed earlier this month from providing increased\nstation power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: According to the NASA TV schedule, Wednesday&#39;s EVA to continue work on the battery upgrades is off. A new spacewalk has been planned for Thursday to replace the Battery Charge\/Discharge Unit with Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ieemiUkUWP\">https:\/\/t.co\/ieemiUkUWP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMC4SgOmd5\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMC4SgOmd5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nextspaceflight\/status\/1184123474366869509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BCDU\u2019s regulate the amount of charge put into the\nbatteries that collect energy from the station\u2019s solar arrays to power station\nsystems during periods when the station orbits during nighttime passes around\nEarth. Two other charge\/discharge units on the affected 2B power channel did\nactivate as planned and are providing power to station systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Follow Koch on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Christina\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astro_christina\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AstroChristina\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. <\/li><li>Follow Meir on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astro_jessica\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astro_jessica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be Koch\u2019s fourth spacewalk and Meir\u2019s first. See the\nvideo accompanying this article to see the two astronauts discussing the\npossibility of conducting a spacewalk together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source: NASA)<br>(Cover Image: NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, Image credit, NASA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astronauts to Conduct 10 Complex Spacewalks\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2o4XMOj2zzY?start=1113&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>~ Posted by: Richard Webster, Ace News Today&nbsp; &nbsp;\/&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;Connect with Richard on&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two were originally scheduled to make their historic all-female space walk on October 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[503,35,547,26,462,594,1056,1538,11,2641],"tags":[4174,2670,4175,4176,4170,1918,4172,4177,36,4173,39,4178,4171],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-education","category-events","category-international","category-science","category-social-media","category-superheroes","category-technology","category-top-news","category-tv","tag-bcdu","tag-christina-koch","tag-expedition-61","tag-female-spacewalk-moved-up","tag-first-all-female-spacewalk","tag-girl-power","tag-iss","tag-jessica-meir","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-announces-changes-to-spacewalk-schedule","tag-space","tag-spacewalk","tag-spacewalk-moved-up","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}