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Feb 2, 2023
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata concluded their spacewalk at 2:26 p.m. EST after six hours and 41 minutes.
Picture above: Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (center left to proper) Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio, each from NASA, pose with astronauts (far left and proper) Nicole Mann from NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) of their Extravehicular Mobility Models (EMUs), or spacesuits, as they prep for a spacewalk on Jan. 20, 2022. Picture Credit score: NASA.
Mann and Wakata accomplished their main goal for at this time, which was to finish the development of a mounting platform on the 1A energy channel that was began throughout a spacewalk on Jan. 20. As well as, they relocated an articulating transportable foot restraint from the P6 truss for future spacewalk duties and deployed cables for the set up of the subsequent pair of Worldwide Area Station Roll-Out Photo voltaic Arrays (iROSAs).
Picture above: Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), or spacesuit, throughout a seven-hour and 21-minute spacewalk to put in a modification equipment on the Worldwide Area Station’s starboard truss construction getting ready the orbital lab for its subsequent roll-out photo voltaic array. Picture Credit score: NASA.
The set up was a part of a collection of spacewalks to enhance the station’s energy channels with new iROSAs. 4 iROSAs have been put in to date, and two extra arrays might be mounted to the put in platforms throughout future spacewalks following their arrival later this 12 months on SpaceX’s twenty eighth industrial resupply providers mission for NASA.
Picture above: Spacewalkers Koichi Wakata (prime) and Nicole Mann (backside) work on the starboard truss construction to improve the house station’s energy era system. Picture Credit score: NASA TV.
It was the 259th spacewalk in assist of house station meeting, upgrades, and upkeep, the second spacewalk of 2023, and the second spacewalk for each astronauts.
Astronauts work outdoors house station in 2nd spacewalk of 2023
Mann and Wakata are within the midst of a deliberate six-month science mission residing and dealing aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific data and display new applied sciences for future human and robotic exploration missions, together with to the Moon by NASA’s Artemis missions.
Associated hyperlinks:
Expedition 68: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition68/index.html
Quest airlock: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/parts/joint-quest-airlock
Starboard truss construction: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/construction/parts/truss-structure
Worldwide Area Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/essential/index.html
Pictures (talked about), Video (NASA TV), Textual content Credit: NASA/Heidi Lavelle.
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