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<\/a>Two NASA astronauts are preparing for a spacewalk on Tuesday to replace a faulty antenna system on the International Space Station<\/a>. Flight Engineers Thomas Marshburn<\/a> and Kayla Barron<\/a> will exit the orbiting lab tomorrow after setting their U.S. spacesuits to battery power at 7:10 a.m. EST<\/a> signifying the start of their spacewalk.<\/p>\n The duo was joined on Monday by three of their fellow Expedition 66<\/a> flight engineers collecting tools and reviewing procedures planned for the six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. NASA astronaut Raja Chari<\/a> partnered with Marshburn and Barron gathering and organizing tethers, cameras, and pistol grip tools. The three astronauts then joined NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei<\/a> and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer<\/a> for a procedures conference with spacewalk specialists on the ground.<\/p>\n Chari and Vande Hei will be on duty throughout Tuesday monitoring the two astronauts during the spacewalk and helping them in and out of their spacesuits. Maurer will be at the controls of the Canadarm2 robotic arm<\/a> assisting the spacewalkers at the Port-1 truss structure<\/a> worksite. NASA TV begins its live coverage on Tuesday at 5:30 a.m. on the agency\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>, and the\u00a0NASA app<\/a>.<\/p>\n The station\u2019s two cosmonauts, Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov<\/a> and Commander Anton Shkaplerov<\/a>, spent their day on a variety of space research and maintenance tasks in the orbiting lab\u2019s Russian segment. Dubrov photographed the condition of the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module<\/a> following the Prichal module\u2019s docking on Friday<\/a>. Shkaplerov swapped out life support hardware and began unpacking cargo from the newly arrived Prichal docking port.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get weekly video highlights at:\u00a0http:\/\/jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov\/videoupdate\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here:\u00a0www.nasa.gov\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two NASA astronauts are preparing for a spacewalk on Tuesday to replace a faulty antenna system on the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron will exit the orbiting lab tomorrow after setting their U.S. spacesuits to battery power at 7:10 a.m. EST signifying the start of their spacewalk. The duo was \u2026 Continue reading
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