Two astronauts perform spacewalk at International Space Station

Two crew members on the International Space Station (ISS) carried out a spacewalk on Friday, January 20, to finish assembling two mounting platforms for the space station’s new solar arrays, NASA said.

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, who is the first Native American woman to travel to space, began the spacewalk at 8:14 am Eastern Time, the space agency said. The spacewalk was expected the last up to seven hours, they added.

The installation is part of a series of spacewalks to augment the ISS’s power channels with new roll-out solar arrays, NASA said.

Wakata can be identified by red stripes on his suit, while Mann’s suit is unmarked, NASA said.

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