Observe Russian cosmonauts get a spacewalk outdoors space station right now
Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the Worldwide Room Station (ISS) these days (Nov. 17), and you can look at the motion dwell.
Sergey Prokopyev, who commands the station’s recent Expedition 68 mission, and Dmitri Petelin are scheduled to start out a spacewalk today at 9:20 a.m. EST (1420 GMT). You can view are living listed here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, starting at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT).
Prokopyev and Petelin will get ready an airlock and radiator for installation on Russia’s Nauka module all through their tour, which is envisioned to previous about seven hours, NASA officers wrote in a preview (opens in new tab) on Wednesday (Nov. 16).
Fellow cosmonaut Anna Kikina “will operate the European robotic arm from within Nauka and help the duo operating in the microgravity natural environment in their Orlan spacesuits,” agency officers added.
Relevant: The most memorable spacewalks of all time in photographs
Present day spacewalk follows carefully on the heels of an American extravehicular activity (EVA) done Tuesday (Nov. 15) by NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio.
Cassada and Rubio invested about 7 several hours outdoors the station, preparing it for the set up of a established of ISS Roll Out Photo voltaic Arrays, or iROSAs, which will increase the orbiting lab’s electric power provide.
Quite a few extra spacewalks are just all-around the corner: NASA has EVAs planned for Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, equally of which are concentrated on iROSA installation as perfectly.
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Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the Worldwide Room Station (ISS) these days (Nov. 17), and you can look at the motion dwell.
Sergey Prokopyev, who commands the station’s recent Expedition 68 mission, and Dmitri Petelin are scheduled to start out a spacewalk today at 9:20 a.m. EST (1420 GMT). You can view are living listed here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, starting at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT).
Prokopyev and Petelin will get ready an airlock and radiator for installation on Russia’s Nauka module all through their tour, which is envisioned to previous about seven hours, NASA officers wrote in a preview (opens in new tab) on Wednesday (Nov. 16).
Fellow cosmonaut Anna Kikina “will operate the European robotic arm from within Nauka and help the duo operating in the microgravity natural environment in their Orlan spacesuits,” agency officers added.
Relevant: The most memorable spacewalks of all time in photographs
Present day spacewalk follows carefully on the heels of an American extravehicular activity (EVA) done Tuesday (Nov. 15) by NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio.
Cassada and Rubio invested about 7 several hours outdoors the station, preparing it for the set up of a established of ISS Roll Out Photo voltaic Arrays, or iROSAs, which will increase the orbiting lab’s electric power provide.
Quite a few extra spacewalks are just all-around the corner: NASA has EVAs planned for Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, equally of which are concentrated on iROSA installation as perfectly.
Mike Wall is the author of “Out There (opens in new tab)” (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a e-book about the lookup for alien everyday living. Comply with him on Twitter @michaeldwall (opens in new tab). Stick to us @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab), Facebook (opens in new tab) and Instagram (opens in new tab).