Spacewalkers Installing Roll Out Solar Array At Space Station

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio installed a roll-out solar array outside the International Space Station.  Credit: NASA

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00:00Okay, that's one.

00:05That's your helmet.

00:09Okay, that's two.

00:12Well, he used it. He did it. We got two installed.

00:16Holy cow.

00:17No kidding. There's a huge sigh down here.

00:22Well done.

00:25That's not the way it was supposed to be, but it worked.

00:30All right, nice job, Josh. I know you've been muscling through that.

00:34You know, it's okay. I'm just trying to blink the sweat out of my eyes.

00:38Yeah.

00:39At the three-hour mark, the Irosa is now engaged and mounted on the mounting bracket

00:45on the modification kit on the starboard four truss.

00:49A little elbow grease required, but nonetheless, Irosa is on its mounting bracket on the S-4 truss.

00:55A couple-second breather here after struggling with that. That's more than cool.

01:00I hope the sun setting is going to help.

01:06All right, my RET is off.

01:08We are saying we're installed because we've got two SAF captures.

01:12So the RET is off.

01:14The scoop is going to stay on for now, correct, Nick?

01:18That's affirmative.

01:19Okay.

01:23Ah, Coichi and Duke, we are installed and ready for the backoff maneuver.

01:30Copy, we are setting up for the Irosa backoff.