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NASA astronaut Meir and ESA's Adenot conduct sixth all-female ISS spacewalk

Confirmed1 source · Sep 1, 2026

Two astronauts performed maintenance work outside the International Space Station on September 1 in a historic all-female extravehicular activity.

NASA astronaut Meir and ESA's Adenot conduct sixth all-female ISS spacewalk
Image via Space.com

What happened

NASA's Jessica Meir and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot conducted the sixth all-female spacewalk from the ISS on September 1, 2024, beginning at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT and expected to last about 6.5 hours. During the excursion, they replaced a retroreflector on the Harmony module to support spacecraft navigation, installed jumper cables for data-relay systems, prepared the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's radiator for future maintenance, and replaced a high-definition camera on the station's truss. Adenot served as crew member 1 wearing a red-striped suit, while Meir was crew member 2 in an unmarked suit.

Context

This spacewalk marks Adenot's third EVA and Meir's seventh. Meir has now participated in three of the five previous all-female ISS spacewalks—the first three ever conducted, all with NASA astronaut Christina Koch in 2019 and 2020. Adenot made history two weeks prior by becoming the first French woman to perform an extravehicular activity. With this seventh EVA, Meir will rank third among female NASA astronauts in total spacewalks, behind Peggy Whitson (10) and Suni Williams (9). The maintenance work supports critical station operations, including navigation systems and a $2 billion particle physics experiment studying cosmic rays and dark matter.