Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report + Today’s spacewalk to install new batteries

Here is NASA’s latest Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

Today ISS Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson made an EVA outside the station “to swap out nickel-hydrogen batteries on the station’s truss with new lithium-ion batteries”. The work involved installing

adapter plates on the truss and [hooking] up electrical cables as part of a complex robotics and spacewalk plan to shore up the station’s power supply for the future. It was the third spacewalk of Kimbrough’s career and the seventh for Whitson, who equaled the mark for most spacewalks by a woman previously set by NASA’s Suni Williams. Kimbrough will venture outside the station again on Jan. 13 with Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) to continue and complete the battery work.