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NASA revises timing for Menon and Kutryk’s spacewalk

The November 5 outing is now planned for 7 p.m. IST; NASA also records new robotics and readiness conferences.

03 November 2026 at 9:48 am ISTBy Mission Desk1 min read

Updated 03 November 2026 at 9:48 am IST: Follow-up to the October 29 installation report: adds NASA’s November 2 revised start and coverage times and newly documented robotics/readiness conferences. The final-array installation remains scheduled for November 5.

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Anil Menon photographs his helmet visor during the October 29, 2026 spacewalk, in a NASA image accompanying its November 2 update. This photograph does not show the forthcoming installation. Credit: NASA.

NASA’s November 2, 2026 update schedules Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk’s next spacewalk for 8:30 a.m. EST on November 5, or 7 p.m. IST. An editor’s note explicitly marks revised start and coverage times.

SpacePolicyOnline’s October 25 schedule had listed an 8:10 a.m. ET start. NASA’s newer entry places live coverage from 7 a.m. EST, or 5:30 p.m. IST, and describes an outing expected to last about seven hours.

NASA also records Menon and Kutryk studying Canadarm2 support procedures with Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney on November 2. The four astronauts held separate conferences with spacewalk specialists and robotics engineers.

Menon is an Indian-origin NASA astronaut. His agency biography states that he was born and raised in Minneapolis to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants.

The pair installed the station’s seventh roll-out solar array on October 29. Their planned November 5 outing would install the eighth and final array on the starboard truss; that installation remains ahead.

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