Space Station Science Highlights: Week of Feb 12, 2018
iss054e014016 (Jan. 2, 2018) --- Astronaut Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency tries on a pair of spacesuit sleeves inside the Quest airlock. To either side of Kanai are the U.S. spacesuits that were being readied for a pair of robotics maintenance spacewalks.
Media Credit: NASA
The crew onboard the International Space Station spent the week conducting science and unloading a newly-arrived cargo delivery that brought three tons of food, fuel and supplies. The Friday morning spacewalk—lasting 5 hours and 57 minutes—was the 208th spacewalk in support of ISSInternational Space Station assembly and maintenance. It was the fourth in Mark Vande Hei’s career, and the first for Norishige Kanai, who became the fourth Japanese astronaut to walk in space.