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NASA and ESA Astronauts Continue Installing Space Station Solar Arrays

Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet during solar array installation
Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency worked to install new roll out solar arrays on the space station.

Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency worked to install new roll out solar arrays on the International Space Station‘s P-6 truss structure. This latest spacewalk took place on Sunday, June 20, 2021.

During the eighth spacewalk of the year, the pair completed the deployment of a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array, or iROSA, on the far end of the left (port) side of the station’s P6 backbone truss structure.

Image Credit: NASA