NASA kicks off attempt to set spacewalk record — and here’s what’s in store

• he National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) astronauts completed the first in ten spacewalks of the agency’s ‘Spacewalk Bonanza’.
• NASA plans to set a new record by conducting ten spacewalks over the next three months.
• On October 21, NASA astronauts will perform to the first all-female spacewalk in human history.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($4) is on track to set a new record for spacewalks. The agency is even calling it the ‘Spacewalk Bonanza’.

The first of the ten spacewalks scheduled to take place outside the International Space Station ($4) over the next three months was completed without any issues yesterday evening.

NASA’s success will mark a pace that hasn’t been seen since the ISS, was first constructed back in 2011.

The first of ten spacewalks


Two NASA astronauts, Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan, $4 the first series of spacewalks that are dedicated to replacing the batteries on the far end of the ISS’ port side — or far left.

In the sevens hours they spent walking in space, Koch and Morgan were able to remove three existing nickel-hydrogen batteries and replace two with the newer lithium-ion batteries.



Koch and Morgan will venture back out onto the ISS on October 11.

Here’s everything that’s still to come from NASA’s ‘Spacewalk Bonanza’: