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Watch NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore perform spacewalk outside the ISS today (video)

NASA’s second spacewalk of 2025 is set to begin today, with NASA’s Starliner astronauts tasked with retrieving hardware from the exterior of the space station.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin the station’s 274th spacewalk, U.S. EVA 92 early Jan. 30, at approximately 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT). A livestream of of the pair’s extravehicular activity (EVA) will begin at 6:30 a.m. EST (1130 GMT), and will be available on NASA’s streaming platforms, as well as here on Space.com.

This will be Williams’ tenth EVA, and comes on the heels of her ninth, U.S. Spacewalk 91, which she performed with NASA astronaut Nick Hague Jan. 16. The upcoming EVA will be Wilmore’s fifth. The duo will spend about 6.5 hours outside the International Space Station (ISS) to disconnect a piece of communications equipment and collect surface sample swabs to look for microbes on the exterior of various ISS modules.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams outside the International Space Station during U.S. EVA 91, Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: NASA)

On the top of Williams’ and Wilmore’s agenda for their spacewalk will be dislodging the radio frequency group (RFG) assembly, an S-band antenna being returned to Earth for refurbishment. Astronauts during a previous spacewalk, U.S. EVA 86, attempted its removal, but were unsuccessful in releasing the component from its mounting plate.

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