Upcoming Live Events (All Times Eastern)
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2 p.m.: Media teleconference on science launching aboard NG-12 cargo mission. Experts discuss select science investigations and technology demonstrations launching on Northrop Grumman’s 12th commercial resupply mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on this page.
Friday, Oct. 18, 6:50 a.m.: NASA TV live spacewalk coverage. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station beginning at about 7:50 a.m. to replace a power controller that failed during the weekend. The spacewalk will be the first ever to be conducted by two women.
Friday, Oct. 18, 1 p.m. (Media Channel): NASA Science Live — A Telescope Like a Time Machine.
Friday, Oct. 31, 3 p.m.: NASA Science Live — A Galaxy of Horrors.
Saturday, Nov. 1, 1 p.m.: Coverage of the release of the JAXA HTV-8 “Kounotori” cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station; release scheduled at 1:20 p.m. EDT
Saturday, Nov. 2, 9:59 a.m.: Launch of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft on resupply mission. Lifting off aboard an Antares rocket from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Cygnus will deliver several tons of cargo including supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station. Cargo on board includes the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02, an experiment that will look for evidence of dark, strange and anti-matter to help us understand how our universe was formed.
Five more spacewalks are planned in November and December aimed at repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
