Two Astronauts Start Spacewalk for Astrophysics Hardware Work

[Link]NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, both NASA astronauts, are pictured evaluating their spacesuits in a pressurized configuration in the Quest airlock.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams began a spacewalk at 8:01 a.m. EST at the International Space Station.

The duo will remove and replace a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the station, install patches to cover damaged areas of light filters for an X-ray telescope called NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), and replace a reflector device used for navigational data on one of the international docking adapters. The pair also will check access areas and connector tools that will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

Hague is crew member 1 wearing a suit with red stripes. Williams is spacewalk crew member 2, wearing an unmarked suit.

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