Two Russian cosmonauts will carry out a spacewalk exterior the Worldwide House Station (ISS) at this time (April 25), and you’ll watch the motion reside.
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to enterprise into the void at round 10:55 a.m. EDT at this time, then “spend about seven hours configuring {hardware} and putting in experiments on the Roscosmos phase of the house station,” NASA officers stated in an update on Wednesday (April 24). (Roscosmos is Russia’s house company.)
You’ll be able to watch it reside right here, courtesy of NASA; protection will start at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).
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Right now’s tour would be the second spacewalk for Chub and the seventh for Kononenko. The duo performed an extravehicular exercise collectively in October 2023, throughout which they inspected a leaky radiator on the skin of Russia’s Nauka module.
Chub and Konenko launched to the ISS collectively again in September 2023, on a Soyuz spacecraft that additionally carried NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. The liftoff kicked off the primary spaceflight for Chub and O’Hara and the fifth for Kononenko.
Kononenko is not simply an off-Earth veteran; he is a record-breaker. The cosmonaut has spent extra complete time in house than anybody in historical past — 957 days as of at this time.
Right now is shaping as much as be a busy day in human spaceflight. China plans to launch the Shenzhou 18 astronaut mission to its Tiangong house station at 8:59 a.m. EDT (1259 GMT), for instance.
And NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to reach at Kennedy House Middle (KSC) in Florida at this time forward of their deliberate Might 6 launch to the ISS on the first-ever crewed flight of Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft.
You’ll be able to watch all of this motion reside right here at House.com. Protection of Williams and Wilmore’s KSC arrival will start at 1 p.m. EDT (1500 GMT), in the course of the Russian spacewalk. (NASA will air the KSC occasion on its essential YouTube channel and change the spacewalk to its media channel at that time.)
