India, May 1 -- American astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are set to conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday to complete station upgrades.
The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. ET and last about six and a half hours. NASA said it will provide live coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. on NASA+.
Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will relocate a space station communications antennae and install a mounting bracket ahead of the installation of an additional set of International Space Station Rollout Solar Arrays, also called IROSA.
The arrays will boost power generation capability by up to 30 percent, increasing the station's total available power from 160 kilowatts to up to 215 kilowatts, NASA said in...