Spacewalk

Two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) will walk out of the station’s Quest airlock for the first time, to install new hardware on the exterior on Friday, January 20.NASA will live stream the entire spacewalk of the…

<!-- -->Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work on the outside of the Rassvet module.On November 17, two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) for a nearly seven hour spacewalk. The walk…

<!-- -->The film is still in the dream phase and hasn't begun production yet.After doing every possible stunt on Earth, actor Tom Cruise now might blast off into space to perform a spacewalk for his upcoming film. The 60-year-old…

Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year. Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop…

An Italian astronaut joined a Russian cosmonaut in a rare spacewalking show of unity Thursday, as tensions over Ukraine continued to ricochet back home. Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up with Russia's Oleg…

Samantha Christoforetti will become the first female European astronaut to conduct a spacewalk. She is on the International Space Station (ISS). European Space Agency's (ESA)…

Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev entered the vacuum of space in their puffy white spacesuits before 11 a.m. ET, and they're expected to spend about seven hours…

Astronauts Raja Chari of NASA and Matthias Maurer of the European Space Agency began the spacewalk at 8:32 a.m. ET. Live coverage will stream on NASA's TV channel and website beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET.At the beginning of the walk, Maurer…

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire space tourist who led the first all-civilian mission to space, has commissioned three more trips with SpaceX - and plans to conduct a spacewalk on one of them.The first of these flights could…

No astronaut has ever died during a spacewalk. But in 2013, a clogged filter caused water to enter the helmet of Luca Parmitano, an Italian astronaut for the European Space Agency, during a trip to the station’s exterior.The procedure for a…