Astronauts Alneyadi & Bowen Prepare for Spacewalk | International Space Station

Astronauts Alneyadi & Bowen Prepare for Spacewalk | International Space Station

Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates tries on his spacesuit ahead of a spacewalk

NASA Astronaut Stephen Bowen tries on his spacesuit ahead of a spacewalk

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg prepares a spacesuit for a spacewalk

Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates prepares a spacesuit for a spacewalk

NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen prepares a spacesuit for a spacewalk

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio installs the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer

Spacewalk preparations are under way aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 69 crew is continuing its advanced microgravity research while maintaining orbital lab systems. Two astronauts are readying their tools today for a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk planned to start at 9:15 a.m. EDT on Friday, April 28, 2023, NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen will be going on his eighth career spacewalk with first-time spacewalker and astronaut Sultan Alneyadi from UAE (United Arab Emirates). The duo will work in the vacuum of space on the starboard side of the station’s truss structure routing power cables and retrieving a communications antenna. The cable work is being done in advance of the installation of the station’s fourth roll-out solar array.

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Expedition 69 Crew (March 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: April 24-26, 2023

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