{"id":109365,"date":"2020-07-01T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronauts-finalize-preps-before-wednesdays-battery-spacewalk"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:05:08","slug":"astronauts-finalize-preps-before-wednesdays-battery-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronauts-finalize-preps-before-wednesdays-battery-spacewalk","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Finalize Preps Before Wednesday\u2019s Battery Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-finalize-preps-before-wednesdays-battery-spacewalk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/expeditions\/expedition63\/index.html\">Expedition 63<\/a> crew is set for its second spacewalk on Wednesday at 7:35 a.m. EDT to continue upgrading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">International Space Station<\/a> power systems.<\/p>\n<p>Commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/christopher-j-cassidy\">Chris Cassidy<\/a> will lead the spacewalk and exit the Quest airlock in the U.S. spacesuit with the red stripes. He\u2019ll be followed by Flight Engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/robert-l-behnken\/biography\">Bob Behnken<\/a> in his spacesuit with no stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Both astronauts are being joined today by Flight Engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/douglas-g-hurley\">Doug Hurley<\/a> as they finalize procedure reviews, organize tools and perform suit leak checks before tomorrow\u2019s spacewalk. Hurley will be on duty helping the spacewalkers in and out their spacesuits and monitoring the excursion. Roscosmos cosmonaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=164\">Ivan Vagner<\/a> will assist the NASA trio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Expedition 63 crew is set for its second spacewalk on Wednesday at 7:35 a.m. EDT to continue upgrading International Space Station power systems. Commander Chris Cassidy will lead the spacewalk and exit the Quest airlock in the U.S. spacesuit with the red stripes. He\u2019ll be followed by Flight Engineer Bob Behnken in his spacesuit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}