Just six days after arriving at their new home in space, NASA astronauts Drew Feustel (@astro_feustel) and Ricky Arnold (@astro_ricky) ventured outside the International Space Station (@iss) to complete the fourth spacewalk this year. In 6 hours, 10 minutes, the veteran spacewalkers successfully installed wireless communications antennas, replaced a camera system and removed suspect hoses from a cooling system. The team also completed prep work for future spacewalk activities, referred to as get-ahead tasks, wrapping up at 3:43 p.m. EDT.
Spacewalkers have now spent a total of 54 days and 10 hours working outside the station in support of assembly and maintenance of the orbiting laboratory.
Image Credit: Roscosmos/Oleg Artemyev
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