NASA to Cover Upcoming US Spacewalks 94, 95 Outside Space Station

NASA astronauts will conduct two spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of two deployed solar panels. NASA experts will provide an overview of spacewalks at a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, March 16, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Watch NASA’s live coverage of the press conference on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to distribute NASA content through various online platforms, including social media.

NASA participants include:

• Bill Specch, Operations Integration Manager, International Space Station Program
• Diana Trujillo, Director of Spacewalk Flights, Directorate of Flight Operations
• Ronak Dave, Director of Spacewalk Flights, Directorate of Flight Operations

Media interested in participating in person or by phone should contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 10 a.m. March 16 by calling 281-483-5111 or emailing jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. To ask questions by telephone, journalists must log into the press conference no later than 15 minutes before the call begins. Questions can also be submitted on social media using #AskNASA. NASA’s Media Accreditation Policy is available online.

On March 18, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will perform Spacewalk 94 in the United States, exiting the orbiting laboratory’s Quest airlock to prepare feeder channel 2A for the future International Space Station Deployment Solar Array Installation (IROSA). This will be Meir’s fourth spacewalk and Williams’ first.

Watch NASA’s live coverage starting at 6:30 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube channel. The American 94 spacewalk will begin around 8 a.m. and is expected to last approximately six and a half hours.

For US Spacewalk 95, two NASA astronauts will prepare the station’s feeder channel 3B for a future IROSA installation. NASA will provide more information on the date and time of the spacewalk, crew members assigned to the activity, and coverage details as the operation approaches.

The spacewalks will be the 278th and 279th space station assembly, maintenance and upgrade operations. They are also the first two spacewalks of 2026 and the first of Expedition 74. Spacewalks 94 and 95 were originally scheduled for January, but the target dates were adjusted after the early departure of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission.

Learn more about International Space Station research and operations at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

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Josh Finch/Jimi Russell
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
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Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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