NASA Astronauts Kayla Barron & Raja Chari | Expedition 66

NASA Astronauts Kayla Barron & Raja Chari | Expedition 66

The Expedition 66 crew has continued preparing for the first of two spacewalks set to begin next week to continue upgrading the International Space Station’s power system. NASA Flight Engineers Kayla Barron and Raja Chari are set to switch their U.S. spacesuits to battery power at 8:05 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, and spend six-and-a-half hours installing a modification kit on the space station’s Starboard-3 truss structure. The new hardware will enable the upcoming installation of a third roll-out solar array increasing the station’s power output and augmenting the existing solar arrays.

NASA's Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Kayla Barron and Raja Chari harvest cotton cell samples grown for the Plant Habitat-05 space agriculture experiment that is exploring the genetic architecture of plant regeneration. Image Date: February 10, 2022

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Kayla Barron poses for a portrait in front of the Advanced Plant Habitat inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. 

Image Date: March 1, 2022

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Raja Chari tests using tools while wearing a spacesuit glove inside the International Space Station's U.S. Quest airlock. 

Image Date: February 19, 2022

NASA astronauts and Expedition 66 Flight Engineers Kayla Barron and Raja Chari pose for a portrait with Roscosmos cosmonaut and International Space Station Commander Anton Shkaplerov (background).

Image Date: November 21, 2021

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Raja Chari is pictured at the end of the work day aboard the International Space Station's U.S. Destiny laboratory module.

Image Date: December 1, 2021

NASA spacewalker Kayla Barron is pictured during a six-hour and 32 minute spacewalk to replace a failed antenna system on the International Space Station's Port-1 truss structure.

Image Date: December 2, 2021

Expedition 66 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Kayla Barron is pictured inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," as the orbital complex flew 263 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

Image Date: December 6, 2021

NASA Astronaut Kayla Barron Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/kayla-barron/biography

NASA Astronaut Raja Chari Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-raja-chari/

Expedition 66 Crew:

Commander: Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov 

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer Matthias Maurer (DLR/German Aerospace Center)

NASA (U.S.) Flight Engineers: Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Mark Vande Hei.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC)

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