Spaceflight Insider
Derek Richardson
February 1st, 2021
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins works on the P4 truss during the first spacewalk of 2021. During their second spacewalk, he and astronaut Victor Glover worked to finish a battery upgrade project that was started four years ago. Credit: NASA
In the second spacewalk in less than a week, two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to wrap up a battery upgrade project started four years ago, and completed various other small tasks.
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, both members of the seven-person Expedition 64 crew, ventured outside the space station’s Quest airlock at 7:56 a.m. EST (12:56 UTC) Feb. 1, 2021, for U.S. Extravehicular Activity 70. Their tasks included installing a final lithium-ion battery and an adapter plate on the P4 truss segment, replacing three external high-definition cameras and performing several get-ahead tasks.
In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.
NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning stellar markings in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.