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Tracy C. Dyson and Matthew Dominick will venture outside the ISS for a six-and-a-half-hour mission to collect samples and remove faulty equipment.
- The spacewalk is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 13, with live coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT.
- Dyson and Dominick will collect microorganism samples from the ISS exterior to study survival in space.
- They will also remove a faulty radio frequency group from a communications antenna on the station's starboard truss.
- This will be Dyson's fourth spacewalk and Dominick's first.
- NASA's Starliner crew will stay at the ISS longer due to ongoing assessments of their spacecraft.
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- International Space Station Artificial satellite
- NASA Government agency
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson American chemist
- Matthew Dominick Test pilot
- Boeing Starliner Spacecraft
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