Two cosmonauts will work exterior the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) for about seven hours on Wednesday night time (Dec. 14), and you’ll 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 may watch stay right here at Area.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 night time’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 purported to occur on Nov. 25, however that spacewalk was canceled when Prokopyev observed an issue with his Orlan spacesuit. That downside has apparently been solved.
Anna Kikina — like Prokopyev and Petelin, a cosmonaut with Russia’s federal space company Roscosmos — will help throughout Wednesday night time’s EVA from contained in the ISS. She is going to function the 36-foot-long (11 meters) European robotic arm, which can assist transfer the radiator.
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