Nicole Mann turned the primary Native American lady to finish a spacewalk.
Mann performed the spacewalk with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on Friday. They spent greater than 7 hours engaged on a platform the place photo voltaic arrays will probably be put in later this yr, NASA mentioned.
"The set up is a part of a collection of spacewalks to reinforce the Worldwide Area Station’s energy channels with new iROSAsn" NASA said. "4 iROSAs have been put in to this point, and two extra will probably be mounted to the platforms put in throughout this spacewalk sooner or later."
This was the 258th spacewalk on the Worldwide Area Station and the primary of 2023.
Mann arrived on the Worldwide Area Station in October. She is anticipated to spend six months in area working aboard the microgravity lab.
Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Spherical Valley Indian Tribes.