Astronauts Gearing Up for Today’s Spacewalk To Upgrade ISS Power System — Four astronauts from Exped |
Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on February 2, 2023. He and fellow spacewalker Nicole Mann of NASA installed a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure that will enable the future installation of the orbiting lab’s next roll-out solar array.
Four astronauts from Expedition 69 are preparing for a spacewalk to upgrade the ISS’s power system by installing a solar array, which arrived via theresearch, and ensuring the station’s operational efficiency. Four Expedition 69 astronauts are making final preparations ahead of today’s spacewalk to continue upgrading the’s power generation system. Meanwhile, the orbital outpost’s three cosmonauts focused on heart research and plasma physics while ensuring station systems remain in tip-top shape.
Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg, Frank Rubio, and Stephen Bowen, all from NASA, gather inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module and speak to U.S. elementary and junior high school students on Earth. Credit: NASA
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