{"id":371429,"date":"2026-03-06T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:07:13","slug":"astronaut-preps-spacesuit-for-upcoming-spacewalk-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/371429\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut preps spacesuit for upcoming spacewalk | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1176\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Jessica Meir at the International Space Station. (ISS\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s this for a going\u00e2\u0080\u0091out outfit?<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Jessica Meir was seen preparing for her upcoming spacewalk outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/02\/27\/spacex-dragon-cargo-craft-leaves-international-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">International Space Station<\/a> (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>She shared pictures of herself reconfiguring her <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/02\/13\/astronauts-practice-moonwalking-as-new-spacesuit-passes-key-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">spacesuit<\/a> and assembling equipment in the orbital platform&#8217;s airlock.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the Expedition 74 crew readies a modification and cable\u00e2\u0080\u0091routing task on the station\u2019s port side.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttownmedia.com\/news\/national\/flights-to-evacuate-stranded-travellers-in-middle-east\/article_5c051348-88a3-5548-a295-3c5262bd4041.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Flights to evacuate stranded travellers in Middle East\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Flights to evacuate stranded travellers in Middle East\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1176\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(ISS\/NASA via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>Jessica said March 4: &#8220;I started off the week in my happy place, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/01\/23\/awesome-view-of-aurora-over-earth-from-international-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Space Station<\/a> airlock assembling my spacesuit! Delighted to be prepping for our upcoming spacewalks, stay tuned!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social media fans were impressed.<\/p>\n<p>X user Brooke Edwards posted: &#8220;I can only image that feeling! Thanks for giving us a glimpse into your life on ISS! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>While Jeffrey Kluger commented: &#8220;OK, this is just too exciting. Be safe\u2014and have fun! You are doing amazing work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Jessica Meir at the International Space Station. (ISS\/NASA via SWNS) By Dean Murray How\u2019s this for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[48418,18,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-371429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-dean-murray","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116183803214434210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}