Spacewalkers Prep Space Station For Final Roll Out Solar Arrays

NASA astronaut Nicole “Duke” Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Jan. 20.

HOUSTON—U.S. and Japanese astronauts carried out preparations for the installation of a third and final pair of Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs) on the International Space Station’s (ISS) long solar power truss with a more than 7-hr. spacewalk on Jan. 20. The excursion took NASA astronaut Nicole “Duke...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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