The tape of U.S. spacewalk 99 is the object. Not a second hull report. Where to watch. What the cameras were pointed at. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot went outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, 1 September 2026. NASA's own advance notice said live coverage would begin at 7 a.m. Eastern. The walk itself started when the suits went to battery power — Space.com and ESA put egress around 8:40 a.m. Eastern, about 12:40 UTC — and the station blog closed the clock at 3:29 p.m. Eastern after 6 hours and 49 minutes.

Where do you play it? Official stream path: nasa.gov/live, the route NASA printed in the 26 August release "NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned." NASA+ scheduled the block as "U.S. Spacewalk 99," 1 September, 7:00 a.m. start on the listing. ISS social accounts and the station blog carried the day. C-SPAN archived a public-affairs recording under the 99th U.S. spacewalk title. Space.com embedded NASA's feed for the household watch page. I'm not inventing a YouTube ID I can't verify on NASA's channel this morning. The identifier that is on the record is the NASA+ title and the nasa.gov/live window.

What were the cameras supposed to show? NASA's task list is the shot list. First: a new retroreflector — NASA's blog spells it retroflector — on the forward port of Harmony, installed so visiting spacecraft have a clean optical target for rendezvous and docking. That is a navigation aid on the American segment, not scenery. Second: a high-definition camera swap on the station's truss. Failed imager off, spare on. ESA's write-up has Adenot riding Canadarm2 for that reach. External video is how ground teams watch the skin of the station. The truss camera is the warehouse-security metaphor that actually fits.

The EVA ninety-nine tape
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Third: an exterior swab for microorganisms — Adenot collecting samples near the airlock and from her gloves for the MicroOrganisms experiment. Fourth: jumper-cable work for power and data routing, partially completed when the timeline slipped. Fifth: preparatory work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's heat-rejecting radiator for a future swap, with remaining guide studs deferred. Mission Control banked what could wait. The tape of a good EVA is a checklist with a hatch at both ends. Harmony forward. Truss camera. Swab bag. Partial jumpers. AMS metal. Quest to Quest.

Coverage start versus hatch open. NASA's 26 August release: watch from 7 a.m. EDT; spacewalk expected around 8:30 a.m. for about six and a half hours. Actual battery-on and egress: about 8:40 a.m. Eastern per Space.com, ten minutes off the printed plan, still a clean start. End: 3:29 p.m. Eastern on the NASA blog. Duration: 6 hours 49 minutes. Adelaide clock for a replay start at coverage open is late evening Tuesday into Wednesday morning — 7 a.m. Eastern is 8:30 p.m. Adelaide the same calendar day. On Sunday the replay is the product. The live window already closed.

Crew labels on the suits, because the tape keys on stripes. Adenot was crew member 1 in the suit with red stripes. Meir was crew member 2 in the unmarked suit. NASA printed that casting in the advance release. Sixth all-female U.S. spacewalk in the record books — note it once for the chyron, then return to the hardware. Meir's seventh walk. Adenot's third. Two hundred and eighty-fourth spacewalk in support of station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades. Those ledger lines are already on NASA and ESA paper. I'm not here to re-score them. The hull piece already carried the task ledger. This is the watch page.

What the cameras also caught, late. Adenot lost mobility in the left shoulder joint. Meir inspected and judged a glove-heater harness was likely catching. Unzipping eased it before ingress. Mission Control held Adenot until Meir could accompany her back. Caution on the loop, not a Hollywood beat. If you scrub the replay toward the last hour, that is the suit story the blog already named. I'm not inventing torque values. The minutes are what the public feed carried.

How a night paper treats official footage. Launches, trailers, filed EVA streams. Tuesday was a spacewalk. The primary objects are NASA's live platforms — nasa.gov/live and the NASA+ "U.S. Spacewalk 99" block — plus the ISS blog posts that bookend the day: begin coverage / complete navigation and science spacewalk. ESA's Adenot page the next day is the European framing and the sample-kit detail. Space.com's watch page is the household embed. C-SPAN is the civic archive if the agency stream has folded. Four doors into one Quest hatch.

What you should hear on the loop if the replay is intact. Airlock calls. Translation to separate worksites. Harmony forward for the reflector. Canadarm2 motion toward the truss camera. A mid-EVA return for the microorganism kit on ESA's account. Mission Control deferring jumpers and AMS guide studs when the clock ran long. Ingress after the shoulder snag eased. Six hours forty-nine minutes is a long clinic shift in a pressurised suit. The romance is optional. The identifiers aren't.

Metric for the notebook. Date: 1 September 2026. Coverage start: 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 UTC). EVA start ~8:40 a.m. EDT (12:40 UTC). End: 3:29 p.m. EDT (19:29 UTC). Duration: 6 h 49 m. Tasks on camera: Harmony forward retroreflector, truss HD camera, exterior swab, partial jumpers, AMS radiator prep. Official watch: nasa.gov/live; NASA+ title "U.S. Spacewalk 99." Primary write-up: NASA ISS blog, 1 September 2026, 3:58 p.m. post. No verified NASA YouTube ID I can confirm on NASA's channel this morning — use the live/NASA+ path and the C-SPAN archive title rather than a guessed string.

Not the hull numbers piece. That one already named the reflector, the camera, the swab, the partial cables, the AMS prep, and the sixth all-female count. This is the tape: where a household plays the public object, what the cameras were aimed at, and which official titles still answer on Sunday. Play nasa.gov/live or NASA+ under U.S. Spacewalk 99. Watch Harmony get its navigation mirror. Watch the truss camera swap. Then read around it. The hatch opened at 8:40. The hatch closed at 15:29 Eastern. The feed is the news.