A loose helmet-mounted camera delayed the spacewalk work by an hour.
) began at 8:32 a.m. EDT as the two Expedition 66 crewmates switched their spacesuits to internal battery power.
Once that issue was solved, Maurer headed off to route a power and data cable for a camera to be replaced later in the spacewalk, while Chari prepared to ride at the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, as controlled by fellow astronauts Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn from inside the space station. The space station has six radiators, three on each side of its backbone truss, which are used to draw heat and keep the modules at a livable temperature. A pair of flex hoses connecting one of the port-side radiators to a valve module was leaking ammonia coolant,The leaky hoses were returned to Earth the following year, repaired and relaunched in 2019.
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