Netflix, which had provided coverage of the space station's previous spacewalk, did not host a livestream for Thursday's excursion. A First Spacewalk for Menon, a Sixth for MeirThursday's excursion marks a significant career milestone for Menon, who is conducting his first-ever spacewalk. He arrived at the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft on July 14, launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. Meir, meanwhile, is making her sixth career spacewalk, having first traveled to the space station between 2019 and 2020. Thursday's spacewalk specifically marks the fourth spacewalk conducted at the station so far in 2026, and the third this year to feature an all-NASA astronaut crew.