NASA Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to Prepare ISS for New Solar Arrays Written 7 August 2026
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir organizes tools inside the Quest airlock a day before her spacewalk, during which she installed hardware on the ISS’s Starboard 6 truss segment to prepare it for future power system upgrades. Credit: Anil Menon; NASA
BBC News reports Astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir ventured out to install a mounting hardware for the future addition of solar arrays to the space station. “The spacewalk lasted 6.5 hours.”
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