Watch live @7:25 am ET Saturday: NASA astronauts performing spacewalk

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio are scheduled to perform a roughly seven-hour spacewalk on Saturday (Dec. 3) to install a new solar array on the International Space Station, beginning at 7:25 a.m. EST (1225 GMT). Watch live here, starting at 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT). 

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