Expedition 75 crew prepares two spacewalks to fit the last of the station's roll-out solar arrays

20 October 2026

The Expedition 75 crew aboard the International Space Station began the week preparing for two spacewalks.
On 29 October, flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA and Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency will install a roll-out solar array on the port side of the truss; it will be Menon's fourth excursion and Kutryk's first.
On 5 November the pair will install the station's eighth and final roll-out solar array on the starboard side of the truss.
Menon cleaned spacesuit cooling loops in the Quest airlock, and Kutryk filled the suit tanks and cooling garments with water.
Flight engineer Luke Delaney worked on analysing crew biological samples in space using compact tools rather than returning them to Earth.
Flight engineer Jessica Watkins used the BioFabrication Facility in the Columbus module to print blood vessels from the cells of patients with a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid aging.
Station commander Pyotr Dubrov studied plasma crystals, and flight engineer Anna Kikina documented hardware locations in the Zarya module.