NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar variety towards the International Space Stations truss structure 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg are preparing for their second spacewalk together set to begin at 8:55 a.m. EDT on Thursday. Bowen and Hoburg signed up with Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) for robotics training on a computer on Tuesday afternoon.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while navigating a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Stations truss structure 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean. In the back, is the SpaceX Dragon crew lorry that docked to the Harmony modules forward port on March 3 carrying 4 SpaceX Crew-6 team members. Credit: NASA
4 Expedition 69 astronauts practiced simulated robotic maneuvers on a computer system today to support a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday, June 15. 3 cosmonauts are preparing for another spacewalk planned to happen next week from the Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg are getting ready for their second spacewalk together set to begin at 8:55 a.m. EDT on Thursday. The spacewalkers will install the orbital outposts sixth roll-out solar array on the opposite side of the starboard truss segment opposite where they installed the fifth roll-out solar selection on Friday, June 9. NASA TV will start its live broadcast of the spacewalk at 7:30 a.m. on the agencys app and site.
Bowen and Hoburg signed up with Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) for robotics training on a computer on Tuesday afternoon. The quartet practiced simulated Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers essential to support Bowen and Hoburg when they remove the roll-out solar array from its flight support devices and install it on the starboard truss. The 2 spacewalkers also prepared their tools inside the Quest airlock, printed checklists they will attach to their spacesuit cuffs, and reviewed more spacewalk procedures on a computer.
The 4 astronauts signed up with each other at the end of the day for eye checks as Bowen and Hoburg scanned the eyes of Rubio and Alneyadi using basic medical imaging gear discovered in an optometrists office. Rubio and Alneyadi invested the very first part of their day servicing a range of exercise devices and orbital pipes hardware.
Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin spent all day Tuesday preparing for a spacewalk prepared for Thursday, June 22. When they leave the orbital stations Poisk airlock next week, the duo studied procedures and situated tools they will use. The 2 cosmonauts will eliminate and replace interactions and science hardware and photo the condition of the Zvezda service module throughout next weeks spacewalk.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev worked throughout Tuesday preserving Zvezdas Elektron oxygen generator and replacing smoke alarm in the Nauka science module. At the end of the day, Fedyaev worked out on the sophisticated resistive exercise device while ground professionals monitored his workout type and hardware operations.