India, Aug. 8 -- NASA astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir on Friday concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to assemble a modification kit for its power channel, which would allow the addition of solar arrays.

The spacewalk - the 281st in support of the space station - sixth for Meir and first for Menon began at 8.33 am EDT (6.03 pm IST) on Thursday and concluded at 3.00 pm EDT (12:30 am IST Friday). Menon and Meir exited the Quest airlock and carried out structural upgrades on the exterior of the orbital laboratory during the six-hour, 27-minute spacewalk.

Their primary objective centred on installing mounting hardware on the station's 3B power channel, located on the Starboard 6 truss segment.

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