The International Space Station (ISS) kicked off 2025 with a long-awaited return to extravehicular activity (EVA) spacewalk activities from the U.S. segment of the ISS. These spacewalks were sharply curtailed in 2024 due to issues with the aging Space Shuttle-era Extravehicular Mobility Unit suits.
Before this latest spacewalk, EVA-90 was the most recent to be performed, with NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt exiting the Station on June 24, 2024. However, just over half an hour into the EVA, Dyson and Barratt were instructed to re-enter the Station due to a water leak in astronaut Dyson’s spacesuit.