Spacewalkers: NASA Astronauts McClain & Ayers | International Space Station

Spacewalkers: NASA Astronauts McClain & Ayers | International Space Station

NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 flight engineers Nichole Ayers (left) and Anne McClain (right) are pictured.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Nichole Ayers on spacewalk.

NASA astronauts and Expedition 72 flight engineers Nichole Ayers (left) and Anne McClain (right) are pictured.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain at work on spacewalk with robotic help from the Canadian Space Agency's Canadarm2.

NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 flight engineers Nichole Ayers (right-center) and Anne McClain (left-center) are pictured with Expedition 73 Station Commander and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi (background-center) and NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 flight engineer Jonny Kim (forground-far right).

Spacewalkers: NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 flight engineers Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain captured this Earth view during their extravehicular activity (EVA)

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers concluded their spacewalk at 2:49 p.m. EDT on May 1, 2025. The total time was 5 hours and 44 minutes. It was the third spacewalk for McClain and the first for Ayers, and the 275th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades. 

McClain and Ayers completed their primary objectives, including relocating a space station communications antenna and the initial mounting bracket installation steps for an IROSA that will arrive on a future SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. Additionally, the astronaut pair completed a pair of get ahead tasks, including installing a jumper cable to provide power from the P6 truss to the International Space Station’s Russian segment and another to remove bolts from a micrometeoroid cover.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center 

Capture Date: May 1, 2025

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