Meir & Menon on spacewalk for power upgrade prep | International Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon conducts a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system. Menon helped build a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir conducts a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system. Meir helped build a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir conducts a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir (red stripes) and NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon can be seen conducting a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Meir worked in the vacuum of space for six hours and 27 minutes with Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon of NASA (out of frame) building a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Meir worked in the vacuum of space for six hours and 27 minutes with Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon of NASA (out of frame) building a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon is pictured outside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock during a spacewalk, with his spacesuit’s helmet lights illuminating the worksite during an orbital night period.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon conducts a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for future upgrades to its power system. Menon worked in the vacuum of space for six hours and 27 minutes with Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir of NASA (out of frame) building a modification kit on the station’s Starboard 6 truss segment where a roll out solar array is slated to be installed later this year.
Expedition 75 commander, flight engineer, and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir: "Using our special spacewalk drill to install one of the struts for the mounting brackets, as captured by astronaut Anil Menon. And look, all of you are in this photo with me as well (Earth!)! That first spacewalk feeling! Congratulations to astronaut Anil Menon on his first spacewalk. Mission complete as we assembled the last of the mounting brackets that will hold another set of solar arrays to augment the International Space Station power supply."
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 3 p.m. EDT on August 6, 2026. It was Menon’s first spacewalk and Meir’s sixth. During the 6-hour, 27-minute spacewalk, Meir and Menon completed their primary objectives. They included preparing the 3B power channel. This work was necessary for the installation of roll-out solar arrays, called IROSA, to provide additional power for the orbiting laboratory, supporting critical systems and the safe, controlled deorbit of the space station.
This was the 281st spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.
Expedition 75 Crew
Station Commander: Jessica Meir
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov
European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot
NASA Flight Engineers: Jack Hathaway, Anil Menon
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center/J. Meir/A. Menon
Image Date: Aug. 6, 2026
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