NASAâs Anil Menon seemingly hanging upside down. (ISS/NASA via SWNS)
By Dean Murray
Incredible scenes show astronauts during the latest spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).
Shots include NASAâs Anil Menon seemingly hanging upside down in the vacuum of space, as well as a âspace selfieâ by the Expedition 75 flight engineer.
Menon participated in a spacewalk with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk to install a new roll-out solar array on the ISSâ port-side truss structure.
The pair spent seven hours and 11 minutes working outside the orbiting laboratory, attaching the array before releasing its tension bolts and allowing it to unfurl on its own in around 10 minutes.
(CSA via SWNS)
Menon was seen riding the Canadarm2 robotic arm as he carried the rolled-up solar array to its installation site, while Kutryk made his way along the stationâs truss structure, tethered to the ISS.
The new array is the seventh roll-out solar array installed on the station and is designed to boost its power-generating capacity as NASA prepares for the ISSâ eventual safe and controlled deorbit.
The spacewalk marked the 100th US spacewalk carried out from the International Space Station.
Menon posted on X on Oct. 30: âCan confirm. Itâs always sunny in space. Yesterday, we completed USOS EVA 100 and installed a new solar array on space station. Over 25 years operating in the harshest environment and using the sunâs energy to do it!â
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