Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot Conducted Spacewalk
04.10.2026, 14:53·
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Flight engineers of ISS Expedition-75 Anil Menon, representing NASA, and Sophie Adenot from the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a joint spacewalk. The work lasted six hours and 23 minutes. Menon is partially obscured in the photograph and is wearing a spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs, denoting his team affiliation. The astronauts worked side by side, performing scheduled maintenance and equipment modernization tasks on the station. Such spacewalks are an important part of ISS crew operations, allowing repairs, installation of new equipment, and scientific experiments that cannot be performed from inside the station. Cooperation between astronauts from different space agencies, such as NASA and ESA, underscores the international character of the ISS program, uniting specialists from different countries for joint space exploration. Expedition-75 continues a series of missions aimed at maintaining station operations and conducting scientific research in microgravity conditions.
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