NASA, Japanese astronauts plan spacewalk Friday

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 4, 2021

Astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi are scheduled to conduct the 236th spacewalk in International Space Station history Friday morning. Rubins, of NASA, and Noguchi, of the Japanese Space Agency, will spend about 6 1/2 hours outside the orbiting space station starting about 7 a.m. EST. They will perform such maintenance as venting ammonia from an external fixture and instal