NASA astronauts are preparing for the first spacewalks of 2026, aimed at upgrading and maintaining the International Space ...

NASA plans two January 2026 spacewalks on the ISS to prepare solar arrays, replace cameras, and maintain ammonia systems, supporting ongoing station operations and future missions.

The first spacewalk is scheduled for Thursday, January 8, when astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman will step outside the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane native and NASA astronaut Anne McClain is responding to the cancellation of what would have been the first ever all-female spacewalk. On Monday, NASA announced that the first ...

The first all-female spacewalk will not take place in March as previously planned, according to NASA. NC State graduate Christina Koch and fellow astronaut Anne McClain were supposed to do a spacewalk ...

The spacewalk will now be done by one female and one male astronaut. The history-making, all-female spacewalk that was scheduled to happen on Friday, during Women’s History Month, has been canceled by ...

NASA announced Monday that North Carolina native astronaut Christina Koch would be joined by astronaut Nick Hague instead of Anne McClain on a spacewalk to continue the upgrade of the batteries that ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Ed White performs the United States' first spacewalk on June 3, 1965, during the Gemini 4 mission. (James McDivitt / AP) The world’s first spacewalker was ...

Two astronauts on Sunday made the first spacewalk outside China’s new orbital station to set up cameras and other equipment using a 15-meter-long (50-foot-long) robotic arm. Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space ...

McClain and Ayers are both part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 that reached the space station in March and paved the way for the Starliner astronauts to return home. NASA provided a livestream ...

JIUQUAN, China — China launched a three-man crew into space Thursday, including one who will make the country's first spacewalk — its most challenging mission since its first orbital flight in 2003.