{"id":525249,"date":"2026-06-30T04:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:47:17","slug":"nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-preps-for-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525249\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Preps for Spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station\u2019s<\/a> Quest airlock.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will go on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/D0dd8X4g3Eg?si=7dR0jaYQubGI2Dcu\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">spacewalk on June 30<\/a> with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. They will replace a malfunctioning wrist joint on the Canadarm2 robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Jessica Meir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[161947,61,1658,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-525249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-christopher-l-williams","tag-ie","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}