U.S. SPACEWALK AT ISS (2 OF 2), Jan 23, 2025, Earth orbit, 8:15 am ET

Update, January 15:  NASA has changed the time the January 16 spacewalk (U.S. spacewalk 91) will begin from 7:00 am ET to 8:00 am ET, and the time NASA+ coverage begins from 5:30 am ET to 6:30 am ET.  They also named the astronauts who will perform the January 23 EVA (U.S. spacewalk 92): Williams and Butch Wilmore. That will begin at 8:15 am ET, with coverage beginning at 6:45 am ET.

Original entry: NASA astronauts will perform two spacewalks at the International Space Station on January 16 and January 23, 2025. Both begin at 7:00 am ET and will air on NASA+ beginning at 5:30 am ET.

• January 16: Nick Hague and Suni Williams will perform the first spacewalk “to replace a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the station, install patches to cover damaged areas of light filters for an X-ray telescope called NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), and replace a reflector device used for navigational data on one of the international docking adapters. Additionally, the pair will check access areas and connector tools that will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.” It will be Hague’s fourth spacewalk and Williams’ eighth.
• January 23: The crew members for the second spacewalk were not announced in NASA’s January 7 press release. NASA said they will be after the first spacewalk.

These are the first NASA spacewalks since two failed attempts last summer, one because an astronaut (Matt Dominick) experienced “spacesuit discomfort” and the other because of a dramatic water leak in an umbilical connecting astronaut Tracy Dyson’s spacesuit to the ISS.