Space Selfie

By theorkneynews on January 27, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) took this selfie whilst on a 7 hour 21 minute spacewalk — Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) points the camera toward himself and takes a “space-selfie” during a seven-hour and 21-minute spacewalk to install a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure preparing the orbital lab for its next roll-out solar array. Image credit: Koichi Wakata/NASA

Astronauts on the Space Station conduct numerous experiments. This week the research has involved how to improve bone healing therapies both on Earth and in space. The Expedition 68 crew members also studied the human heart and plasma physics and set up Earth imagery hardware.

The international crew of Expedition 68 are:

Frank Rubio
Dmitri Petelin
Koichi Wakata
Josh Cassada
Nicole Mann
Sergey Prokopyev
Anna Kikina