Suiting Up For An EVA
Suiting up in Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU)
NASA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (center) assists NASA astronauts Frank Rubio (left) and Josh Cassada (right), suited up in their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU), or spacesuits, before beginning a seven-hour and 11-minute a spacewalk to ready the orbiting lab’s starboard truss structure for future rollout solar array installation work.
Credit: Koichi Wakata/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) iss068e022314 (Nov. 15, 2022) – larger image
