{"id":242594,"date":"2026-08-12T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/station-crew-gears-up-for-next-spacewalk-keeps-up-microgravity-research"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:08:17","slug":"station-crew-gears-up-for-next-spacewalk-keeps-up-microgravity-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/station-crew-gears-up-for-next-spacewalk-keeps-up-microgravity-research","title":{"rendered":"Station Crew Gears Up for Next Spacewalk, Keeps Up Microgravity Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/station-crew-gears-up-for-next-spacewalk-keeps-up-microgravity-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next spacewalk outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\">International Space Station<\/a> is set to take place on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/2026\/08\/07\/space-station-crew-wraps-busy-week-plans-new-date-for-us-spacewalk-97\/\">Tuesday, Aug. 18<\/a>. Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/expedition-75\/\">Expedition 75<\/a> astronauts will work in the vacuum of space to replace a space-to-ground antenna to maintain high-speed data and communication transmissions between the orbital outpost and mission controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Flight engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/nasa-astronaut-anil-menon\/\">Anil Menon<\/a> of NASA and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) are gearing up for next week\u2019s spacewalk that will see the duo spend about six-and-a-half hours swapping an antenna on the orbital outpost\u2019s Z1 truss segment. Menon and Adenot worked together on Monday inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/quest-airlock\/\">Quest airlock<\/a> and organized the tools they will carry outside of the space station for the replacement job. Station commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/jessica-u-meir\/\">Jessica Meir<\/a> and flight engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/astronauts\/nasa-astronaut-jack-hathaway\/\">Jack Hathaway<\/a>, both from NASA. studied the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/mobile-servicing-system\/\">Canadarm2 robotic arm<\/a> maneuvers they will use to assist next week\u2019s spacewalkers. Hathaway and Adenot also took turns cleaning the cooling systems in a pair of spacesuits. The quartet wrapped up Monday\u2019s shift reviewing procedures for the upcoming spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent spacewalk took place on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/2026\/08\/06\/astronauts-complete-spacewalk-for-solar-array-modifications\/\">Aug. 6<\/a> to augment the space station\u2019s power system. Meir and Menon spent six hours and 27 minutes building a modification kit on the station\u2019s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next spacewalk outside the International Space Station is set to take place on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Two Expedition 75 astronauts will work in the vacuum of space to replace a space-to-ground antenna to maintain high-speed data and communication transmissions between the orbital outpost and mission controllers. Flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242594","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=242594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}