WATCH: All-female spacewalk performed to replace space station batteries

By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

January 15, 2020 at 11:38 am EST

All-female spacewalk performed to replace batteries All-female spacewalk performed to replace batteries

By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

January 15, 2020 at 11:38 am EST

An all-female crew is performing the first of two spacewalks scheduled for January.

The mission for Expedition Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir is to replace batteries on the International Space Station, according to NASA.

They are swapping out nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries on the ISS solar array.

The batteries are the latest piece of the ISS power system upgrades that started in January 2017.

You can watch the live stream of the spacewalk below:

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