Live on NASA Television (click the tab above or go tohttp://www.nasa.gov/nasatv): today's U.S. spacewalk conducted from the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 7:10 a.m. EST/12:10 UTC and last about 6 1/2 hours.
Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts will venture outside the orbital complex for the second of three spacewalks to prepare cables for new docking ports that will allow future crews launching from Florida on U.S. commercial spacecraft to dock to the space station. They also will make other preparations for a reconfiguration of the space station in advance of the arrival of private crewed spacecraft.
During a spacewalk on Saturday, the duo spent 6 hours, 41 minutes outside deploying eight bundles of cables. Today they will route two additional bundles, lubricate parts of the Latching End Effector of the space station’s robotic arm, and prepare the Tranquility module for the relocation later this year of the Permanent Multipurpose Module and the arrival of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an expandable space habitat technology.
This is the 186th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.
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