By JOHN SMITH
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s astronauts faced an exciting change of pace as one of them embarked on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station over seven months ago.
Suni Williams, the commander of the station, joined NASA’s Nick Hague for some overdue outdoor repair work while the station orbited 260 miles above Turkmenistan.
After a delay in their return due to technical issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule and SpaceX’s launch delay, Williams and her colleague are now set to return home ten months after their initial launch.
This spacewalk marked NASA astronauts’ return to spacewalks after a previous one was aborted last summer. U.S. spacewalks were paused due to a water leak issue that has since been resolved.
For Williams, this was her eighth spacewalk, having previously lived on the space station.
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