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JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata takes a “space-selfie”

JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata takes a "space-selfie"
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata points the camera toward himself and takes a "space-selfie" during a six-hour and 41-minute spacewalk.

iss068e045263 (Feb. 2, 2023) — Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) points the camera toward himself and takes a “space-selfie” during a six-hour and 41-minute spacewalk. He and fellow spacewalker Nicole Mann (out of frame) of NASA installed a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure preparing the orbital lab for its next roll-out solar array.