Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi has completed his first spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
Wakata, and an astronaut from the US space agency NASA, ventured out of the ISS at around 13:00 UTC on Friday. During a roughly seven-hour extravehicular activity, they worked on the installation of a platform to mount roll-out solar arrays.
Wakata is the fifth Japanese astronaut to walk in space.
He has been living on the ISS since October 2022 on a roughly six-month mission to conduct experiments for future expeditions of the Moon and Mars.
Wakata, and an astronaut from the US space agency NASA, ventured out of the ISS at around 13:00 UTC on Friday. During a roughly seven-hour extravehicular activity, they worked on the installation of a platform to mount roll-out solar arrays.
Wakata is the fifth Japanese astronaut to walk in space.
He has been living on the ISS since October 2022 on a roughly six-month mission to conduct experiments for future expeditions of the Moon and Mars.
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Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi conducted his first spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). On Friday at 13:00 UTC, he and a NASA astronaut installed a platform for roll-out solar arrays during a 7-hour extravehicular activity. This is Wakata's fifth spacewalk and he has been
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URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230121_08/
Date: Jan. 21, 2023
Created: 2023/01/22 08:42
Updated: 2025/12/09 08:35
Last Read: 2023/01/22 10:43