Two cosmonauts will work exterior the Worldwide House Station (ISS) for about seven hours on Wednesday evening (Dec. 14), and you may watch the motion stay.
Sergey Prokopyev, commander of the station’s present Expedition 68 mission, and Dmitri Petelin are scheduled to start a spacewalk Wednesday at 9:20 p.m. EST (0220 GMT on Dec. 15). You possibly can watch stay right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA, starting at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT).
“The duo will exit the Poisk module’s airlock and switch a radiator from the Rassvet module, then join it to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module,” NASA officers wrote in an update (opens in new tab) on Tuesday (Dec. 13).
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This work is anticipated to take about seven hours.
Prokopyev and Petelin laid the groundwork for Wednesday evening’s extravehicular exercise (EVA) with a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Nov. 17, throughout which they freed the radiator, readying it for relocation.
Relocation was speculated to occur on Nov. 25, however that spacewalk was canceled when Prokopyev observed an issue with his Orlan spacesuit. That drawback has apparently been solved.
Anna Kikina — like Prokopyev and Petelin, a cosmonaut with Russia’s federal space company Roscosmos — will help throughout Wednesday evening’s EVA from contained in the ISS. She’s going to function the 36-foot-long (11 meters) European robotic arm, which is able to assist transfer the radiator.
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