NASA Astronauts Williams & Hague Test Spacesuits | International Space Station

NASA Astronauts Williams & Hague Test Spacesuits | International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore (center) assists International Space Station Commander Suni Williams (left) and Flight Engineer Nick Hague (right), both NASA astronauts, as they evaluate their spacesuits in a pressurized configuration.

A U.S. spacesuit is pictured being serviced for maintenance inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

NASA astronaut and Expedtion 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit took this photograph of a U.S. spacesuit helmet with his reflection prominent on the helmet's visor inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

Hague and Williams are scheduled to exit the orbital outpost on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, for a spacewalk to service astrophysics gear, including the NICER X-ray telescope and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. 

Hague and Williams will set their spacesuits to battery power at approximately 8 a.m. EST on Thursday signifying the official start of the first spacewalk of 2025. The experienced spacewalkers will exit the Quest airlock and spend about six-and-a-half hours servicing astrophysics hardware including the NICER X-ray telescope and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.  Also on the task list, are the replacement of a rate gyro assembly to maintain station orientation and the replacement of a planar reflector to provide navigation data.

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Dates: Dec. 9, 2024-Jan. 9, 2025

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