By Kelly Taylor

On Friday, March 22, WKTV Channel 26  will be feature the first of three scheduled International Space Station U.S. spacewalks. 

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Anne McClain will exit the space station Friday morning for a six-hour spacewalk to continue the ongoing work of upgrading the station’s power storage capacity.

Coverage begins at 6:30 a.m., with the spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:05 a.m. Check out the live footage of the astronauts as they replace older nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries and install new adapter plates on the ISS truss structure.

For more information on NASA TV or the International Space Station, log on to www.nasa.gov.

NASA TV can be seen on the WKTV 26 Government Channel on Comcast and AT&T U-verse 99 Government Channel 99.