NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will venture outside the orbiting outpost to perform maintenance tasks and start installation of the new iROSA solar arrays.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added …