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Feb. 28, 2021
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to begin assembling and installing modification kits required for upcoming solar array upgrades.
The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:12 a.m. EST to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about six and a half hours.
Image above: NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins during a six-hour and 48-minute spacewalk on Sept. 1, 2016. Image Credit: NASA.
Watch the spacewalk on NASA TV, the NASA app, and on the agency’s website.
Rubins is extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1), wearing a spacesuit bearing red stripes and using helmet camera #22. Glover is extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), wearing the spacesuit without stripes and helmet camera #20.
Spacewalk. Animation Credit: NASA
Rubins and Glover will traverse out the station’s backbone truss structure to the far left (port) side set of solar arrays, the first pair of solar arrays deployed in December 2000 that have been powering the station for more than 20 years. The spacewalkers will work together to construct and begin installing bracket support structures at the base of the current solar arrays that will enable new solar arrays to be installed to augment the space station’s power supply.
This is the 235th spacewalk in support of space station assembly.
Related links:
NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Expedition 64: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition64/index.html
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Image (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Norah Moran.
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