{"id":833005,"date":"2026-09-01T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833005\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:16:15","slug":"maine-astronaut-jessica-meir-set-for-7th-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833005\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir set for 7th spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine astronaut Jessica Meir set for 7th spacewalk<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a Caribou native, is scheduled to step outside the International Space Station Tuesday for her seventh career spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5905b4ca-46c6-4d41-8226-b051e2b45e41_1684829494.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Francis Flisiuk\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CARIBOU, Maine \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a Caribou native, is scheduled to step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday for her seventh career spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Meir and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot are expected to begin the spacewalk at about 8:30 a.m. EDT, according to NASA. Live coverage is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-HQOp1-LpU0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scheduled to begin at 7 a.m.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e65651d1-7f9b-4200-9c98-d384119b317b.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e65651d1-7f9b-4200-9c98-d384119b317b.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The astronauts are expected to spend about 6 1\/2 hours outside the station completing maintenance and science-related work.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">NASA said their tasks will include replacing a navigational aid used by spacecraft, preparing a cosmic particle detector for future upgrades and installing jumper cables to improve data-relay systems. <\/p>\n<p>This content is imported from instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Tuesday\u2019s outing will be Meir\u2019s seventh career spacewalk and Adenot\u2019s third. NASA said it will be the 284th spacewalk conducted at the International Space Station since 1998.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The Expedition 75 crew spent Monday preparing spacesuits, tools and procedures inside the station\u2019s Quest airlock.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Meir previously returned to the International Space Station this year for her second long-duration mission in orbit. The Maine native first traveled to space in 2019 and became one of the first two women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Tuesday\u2019s spacewalk will be the fourth conducted outside the International Space Station in about a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine astronaut Jessica Meir set for 7th spacewalk NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, a Caribou native, is scheduled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[352703,352702,349526,352688,352695,22212,352696,349439,22245,352689,3631,250313,43020,352693,10482,352687,352701,8373,352699,23600,718,352694,15541,352690,79,352698,352700,352692,207153,193,352697,9176,24686,96699,16935,11484,352691],"class_list":["post-833005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-7th-spacewalk","tag-a-m-edt","tag-all-female-spacewalk","tag-caribou-native","tag-cosmic-particle-detector","tag-crew","tag-data-relay-systems","tag-edt","tag-european-space-agency","tag-expedition-75","tag-international-space-station","tag-jessica-meir","tag-live-coverage","tag-long-duration-mission","tag-maine","tag-maine-astronaut","tag-maine-astronaut-jessica-meir","tag-maintenance","tag-meir","tag-monday","tag-nasa","tag-navigational-aid","tag-orbit","tag-quest-airlock","tag-science","tag-science-related-work","tag-seventh-career-spacewalk","tag-seventh-spacewalk","tag-sophie-adenot","tag-space","tag-space-maintenance","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacesuit","tag-spacewalk","tag-tool","tag-tuesday","tag-tuesday-spacewalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}