NASA protection is underway for at present’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The duo will enterprise exterior the station’s Poisk airlock to put in an experiment package deal designed to watch celestial x-ray sources and new electrical connector patch panels and take away a number of experiments for disposal. Moreover, the 2 cosmonauts will relocate a management panel for the European robotic arm, which is hooked up to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexsandr Gorbunov will function the arm through the spacewalk from contained in the station.
The spacewalk is scheduled to start at roughly 10:10 a.m. EST, and final about six hours and 45 minutes. Discover ways to watch NASA content by way of a wide range of platforms, together with social media.
Roscosmos spacewalk 63 would be the second for Ovchinin and the primary for Vagner. Ovchinin will put on an Orlan spacesuit with purple stripes, and Vagner will put on a spacesuit with blue stripes. It will likely be the 272nd spacewalk in assist of house station meeting, upkeep, and upgrades.
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