Astronaut Joshua Kutryk was some 420 kilometres above the Earth when he stepped into the vacuum of space on Thursday morning, making him the fifth Canadian to perform a spacewalk.
Kutryk and NASA astronaut Anil Menon placed their suits on battery power at 7:57 a.m. EDT, marking the official beginning of the spacewalk. They are working to install solar panels on part of the International Space Station, using the Canadarm2 robotic arm as a base for Menon to stand on.
The spacewalk was expected to last nearly seven hours. The duo will install seven of eight new solar arrays needed to upgrade the station’s power capacity….