NASA Spacewalks Resume With ISS Solar Power Upgrade Activities

NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada on spacewalk

NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada enters the airlock at the end of the Nov. 15 spacewalk to prepare the space station for upcoming solar array upgrades. 

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s (ISS) solar power-generation system with a 7-hr. spacewalk on Nov. 15 to prepare the starboard end of the long solar-power truss for the installation of ISS Roll Out Solar...
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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