Expedition 69 crew members, NASA's Stephen Bowen and UAE's Sultan Alneyadi, are preparing for a Friday spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power system. This precedes the installation of new solar arrays to be delivered by the next SpaceX mission. Meanwhile, Russian cosmonauts com
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-133 mission specialist, poses for a picture during a spacewalk on March 2, 2011, when he was conducting hardware maintenance on the outside of the space station. Credit: NASA’s Stephen Bowen and UAE’s Sultan Alneyadi, are preparing for a Friday spacewalk to upgrade the’s power system. This precedes the installation of new solar arrays to be delivered by the nextmission.
Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE are finalizing their tool collections and Quest airlock configurations the day before their six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk begins. They staged their Extravehicular Mobility Units , or spacesuits, inside Quest and finished studying the procedures they will use to route power cables and retrieve an antenna on the station’s starboard truss structure.
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