Overview
- Two astronauts, NASA’s Jessica Meir and ESA’s Sophie Adenot, carried out the sixth all-female spacewalk Tuesday and safely returned after finishing the assigned maintenance tasks.
- The crew replaced a retroreflector on the Harmony node used for spacecraft docking, swapped the Camera Port 3 HD unit on the truss, and installed and relocated jumper cables to restore and strengthen data links.
- Meir also torqued 46 bolts and staged hardware on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to prepare that $2 billion particle detector for future on‑orbit maintenance.
- Late in the EVA Adenot reported reduced left-shoulder mobility and Mission Control had Meir inspect the suit; Meir freed a kink in the upper-arm assembly and the spacewalk concluded without injury.
- The outing was logged as the ISS’s 284th supporting EVA, Meir’s seventh spacewalk which moves her to third among NASA women by EVA count, and it continues a concentrated August–September campaign to sustain the aging station.