Spacewalkers Advance Efforts To Upgrade ISS Solar Arrays

Astronauts Soichi Noguchi (left) and Kate Rubins work to install a solar array modification kit.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—U.S. and Japanese spacewalking astronauts Kate Rubins and Soichi Noguchi teamed up outside the International Space Station (ISS) on March 5 to complete modifications to two of six solar power channels on the orbiting science lab’s long support truss due to be equipped with new ISS Roll Out...
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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