NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Chris Cassidy began the first of their last two spacewalks.
At 7:10 a.m. EST, the astronauts switched their suits to battery power to begin the spacewalk, which was expected to last six to seven hours.
Today's spacewalk began at 7:35 am ET (11:35 am GMT) and NASA's live feed began at 6:00 am ET (10:00 am GMT).
Behnken will serve as lead astronaut forspacewalk time and will wear a spacesuit with a red stripe. There will be no stripes on Cassidy's suit. This is the ninth spacewalk for both astronauts.
Behnken and crew member Douglas Hurley arrived atspace station in May as part of the Demo 2 mission under the Agency's Commercial Transportation Program. The mission is to test the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket - including all launch, in orbit, docking and landing operations - before NASA certification of SpaceX's crew transport system for regular crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory.
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