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NASA Spacewalkers Prep ISS For Next Chapter Of Solar Power Upgrade

From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams

From left, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Two NASA astronauts conducted a spacewalk March 18 to resume efforts to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for the installation of a final pair of solar-power-augmenting Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs). The 7-hr., 2-min. extravehicular activity was carried out by agency astronauts...
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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