EVA
US EVA-64
International Space Station International Space Station Expedition 61
Astronauts Drew Morgan (NASA) and Luca Parmitano (ESA) will perform an extravehicular activity (EVA) to complete repairs to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 2 instrument.
Both astronauts launched aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-13 in July 2019. Morgan is aboard the International Space Station for the first time while Parmitano, the current commander of Expedition 61, already spent 4 months on the ISS in 2013.
This will be the third and Parmitano's last EVA of 2020 (Luca Parmitano will be coming back to Earth on February 6).
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