Josh & Frank's Spacewalk Day | International Space Station

Josh & Frank's Spacewalk Day | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer and NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann (center) of NASA poses with NASA spacewalkers Josh Cassada (left) and Frank Rubio (right) who were suited up and ready to begin a spacewalk to install a roll-out solar array on the International Space Station's Port-4 truss segment

Nicole Mann (center left) of NASA and Koichi Wakata (center right) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) pose with NASA spacewalkers Frank Rubio (far left) and Josh Cassada (far right) who were suited up and ready to begin a spacewalk

Koichi Wakata (center) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) poses with NASA spacewalkers Josh Cassada (left) and Frank Rubio (right) 

Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nicole Mann of NASA pose with a pair of Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, that NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada (both out of frame) 

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 3:27 p.m. EST on Nov. 22, 2022, after 7 hours and 8 minutes.

Cassada and Rubio completed their major objectives to install an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the 4A power channel on the port truss. The iROSAs will increase power generation capability by up to 30%, increasing the station’s total available power from 160 kilowatts to up to 215 kilowatts.

It was the 257th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance, and was the third spacewalk for both astronauts.

Cassada and Rubio are in the midst of a planned six-month science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Dec. 22, 2022

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