{"id":335164,"date":"2026-03-18T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:01:08","slug":"watch-live-today-nasa-astronauts-conducting-spacewalk-delayed-by-iss-medical-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335164\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live today: NASA astronauts conducting spacewalk delayed by ISS medical evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two NASA astronauts will conduct a long-delayed spacewalk today (March 18), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will venture outside the International Space Station <\/a>(ISS) today at around 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk<\/a> expected to last about 6.5 hours.<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency<\/a>. Coverage will start at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT).<\/p>\n

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station\u2019s main solar arrays during a spacewalk on May 1, 2025 to upgrade the orbital outpost\u2019s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

Today’s spacewalk was originally scheduled for Jan. 8, with NASA’s Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman supposed to suit up. But that plan was nixed when a then-unnamed member of SpaceX<\/a>‘s Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS experienced a medical issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That issue led to Crew-11’s departure on Jan. 15<\/a>, about a month earlier than originally planned. It was the first medical evacuation in the long history of the ISS.<\/p>\n

Fincke later revealed<\/a> he was the one who experienced the problem on orbit. Neither Fincke nor NASA has revealed details about the concern, but both have stressed that the astronaut is doing fine.<\/p>\n

Today’s spacewalk will be the fourth for Meir and the first for Williams. The duo will help prepare one of the station’s power channels for the future installation of an iROSA<\/a> (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array).<\/p>\n

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Another spacewalk with similar goals will follow in the near future; NASA officials have said they will announce the astronauts involved and the target date after completion of today’s EVA (extravehicular activity). This other spacewalk was also a casualty of the Crew-11 medical evacuation; it was originally supposed to take place on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

The two upcoming spacewalks will be first ISS EVAs of 2026, the first for the orbiting lab’s current Expedition 74 and the 278th and 279th overall in the outpost’s lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two NASA astronauts will conduct a long-delayed spacewalk today (March 18), and you can watch the action live.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-335164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}