Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk: June 15, 2023 | International Space Station

Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk: June 15, 2023 | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Stepehen Bowen is pictured during a spacewalk riding the Canadarm2 robotic arm

Bowen is pictured during spacewalk to install and deploy a roll-out solar array

Bowen is pictured readying a roll-out solar array before installation

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg is barely visible (center) tethered to starboard truss structure

View of SpaceX Dragon vehicles & International Space Station

View of International Space Station during a spacewalk

NASA Astronauts Stephen Bowen, Frank Rubio, and Woody Hoburg

Hoburg takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie"

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk on June 15, 2023, at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes. Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure. The new array is 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and is shading a little more than half of the original array, which is 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Each new IROSA produces more than 20 kilowatts of electricity and together enable a 30% increase in power production over the station’s current arrays.

It was the 265th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance. The spacewalk marked the second for Hoburg and tenth for Bowen, tying him for the most spacewalks by a U.S. astronaut along with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Bob Behnken, Peggy Whitson, and Chris Cassidy.

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Expedition 69 Crew (June 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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Capture Date: June 15, 2023

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