Spaceflight Insider
Derek Richardson
February 28th, 2021
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, top, and Victor Glover work to assemble a truss-like structure that will hold a set of new solar arrays in the near future. Credit: NASA
Expedition 64 flight engineers and NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover ventured outside the International Space Station for the first of two spacewalks to ready the outpost for new solar arrays later this year.
The seven hour extravehicular activity involved the duo assembling structures on the far port-side solar array mast canisters where a pair of new roll-out solar arrays are expected to be attached after their delivery later this year. The work is expected to be completed during another outing later this week.