NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg points the cam toward himself and takes an out-of-this-world “space-selfie” during a six-hour and three-minute spacewalk to install a roll-out solar selection on the International Space Stations truss structure on June 9, 2023. Credit: NASA
Hoburg and Bowen were signed up with at midday on Friday by Flight Engineers Frank Rubio of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) for a conference with objective controllers to discuss the previous days spacewalk. The standard post-spacewalk debriefing saw the quartet talk about issues and experiences they may have come across to notify future spacewalks.
The 4 astronauts also had time for other jobs at the end of the week. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi took turns transferring freight in and out of the Dragon cargo car. Alneyadi likewise recharged water tanks inside spacesuits. Rubio had his eyes scanned with the Ultrasound 2 gadget with remote guidance from doctors on the ground.
The next spacewalk at the orbital outpost is arranged to happen on Thursday, June 22, when Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin will leave the Poisk airlock. The duo has been spending the week reviewing procedures and readying spacesuits for next weeks prepared seven-hour spacewalk. The 2 cosmonauts will go on their fifth spacewalk together to change Roscosmos science and communications hardware and after that picture the condition of the Zvezda service module.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev began Friday gathering information from radiation sensing units that Hoburg and Bowen used throughout their spacewalk. Afterward, he spent the remainder of the day servicing a carbon dioxide elimination gadget inside the Zvezda service module and cleaning vent screens in the Zarya module.
The area station is orbiting somewhat greater after the 83P fired its engines for 13 minutes on Friday. The orbital reboost raises the station to the proper elevation for the upcoming docking of the ISS Progress 84 resupply objective.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen is imagined working to launch a stowed roll-out solar selection connected to the International Space Stations starboard truss structure during a three-minute and six-hour spacewalk on June 9, 2023. Credit: NASA
During a hectic week at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts finished a spacewalk to set up the sixth solar selection, boosting the stations power capacity by 30%. They also got ready for an approaching spacewalk to occur next week, which will include hardware replacement and upkeep. Other activities consisted of freight management, spacesuit upkeep, medical scans, and station reboost in preparation for the arrival of a resupply mission.
The International Space Station (ISS) residents are going into the weekend following a busy week of spacewalk activities. The Expedition 69 crew members completed one spacewalk this week and are getting ready for another one next week.
NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen finished setting up the orbital outposts sixth roll-out solar variety during a spacewalk on Thursday. The pair spent 5 hours and 35 minutes in the vacuum of space finishing the installation task. On June 9, Hoburg and Bowen installed the other roll-out solar array that was provided inside the SpaceX Dragon freight automobile on June 6. The extremely first roll-out solar array was set up precisely two years back on June 16, 2021, by Expedition 65 spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency). With the 6 roll-out solar selections installed and activated the stations power-generating capacity has been increased by about 30%.
During a busy week at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts finished a spacewalk to install the sixth solar array, boosting the stations power capability by 30%. They likewise prepared for an approaching spacewalk to take location next week, which will involve hardware replacement and upkeep. NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen finished setting up the orbital stations sixth roll-out solar array throughout a spacewalk on Thursday. The next spacewalk at the orbital outpost is arranged to take location on Thursday, June 22, when Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin will exit the Poisk airlock. The duo has actually been investing the week evaluating procedures and readying spacesuits for next weeks planned seven-hour spacewalk.