Whoa!

This is awesome check out the live stream of a real space walk!  Here is a brief background on who and what is involved!

NASA astronauts are about to embark on their first ever spacewalk as they venture outside the International Space Station’s (ISS) airlock to perform various station upgrades and maintenance tasks. 

Commander Scott Kelly might have spent more time in space than any other US astronaut, but he’s never actually performed a spacewalk. He’ll be joined by flight engineer Kjell Lindgren, another first-timer, to perform a number of upgrades and maintenance jobs on the exterior of the ISS, including installing a thermal cover on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer – the station’s particle physics detector, which was installed back in 2011.

The pair will also be making updates to the Canadarm2 robotic arm, an amazing 17-metre-long apparatus that’s used to move supplies, equipment, and even astronauts around outside the ISS. The slightly creepy limb is involved in the upkeep of the ISS, and regularly performs ‘cosmic catches’ – grabbing hold of and docking unpiloted spacecraft that ferry equipment from Earth.

We hope you enjoy this streaming footage and congrats to the astronauts and those behind the scenes!

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info

thanks to NASA/Wikimedia for the pic