Stephen Bowen now shares the record for the most spacewalks conducted by an American after helping to deploy the last (for now) of six new solar arrays.
, augmenting the complex's 1A power channel. On Thursday's spacewalk, the two Expedition 69 crewmates repeated almost the same steps, only this time they were focused on the 1B power channel located on the opposite side of the station's starboard truss.began at 8:42 a.m. EDT , when both astronauts switched their suits to internal battery power. After emerging from the U.S.
The spacewalkers then took a break from working on the array's installation to get ahead on cleaning up their worksites as they waited for the space station to move into Earth's shadow. The hold was to ensure the legacy IB solar array was not generating power when work began to tie the new iROSA into the power channel.
NASA graphic showing the location of the fifth and sixth International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays that were installed and deployed by Expedition 69 crewmates Warren"Woody" Hoburg and Stephen Bowen during two spacewalks on Friday, June 9 and Thursday, June 15, 2023, respectively.
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