First NASA space walk of 2018 happening now

Since December 1998, there have been 205 spacewalks at the International Space Station.

The first spacewalk of 2018 is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

NASA will be streaming the walk live, which begins around 7 a.m. 

According to NASA, American and Japanese astronauts will carry out these spacewalks in January to repair a robotic arm on the space station.

Mark Vande Hei of NASA will lead the walk along with Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai.

Last year, there were nine U.S. spacewalks.

The most recent was Oct. 20 and lasted for six hours and 49 minutes.

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