NASA will present stay protection as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outdoors of the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 19.
NASA’s stay protection begins at 9:45 a.m. EST, Thursday on NASA+. Learn learn how to watch NASA content material via a wide range of platforms, together with social media. The spacewalk is scheduled to start at roughly 10:10 a.m. and final about six and a half hours.
Expedition 72 crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will enterprise outdoors the station’s Poisk module 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. The two cosmonauts additionally will relocate a management panel for the European robotic arm, which is connected to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexsandr Gorbunov will function the arm through the spacewalk from contained in the station.
Roscosmos spacewalk 63 would be the second for Ovchinin and the primary for Vagner. Ovchinin will put on an Orlan spacesuit with crimson stripes, and Vagner will put on a spacesuit with blue stripes. It would be the 272nd spacewalk in assist of house station meeting, upkeep, and upgrades.
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Claire O’Shea / Josh Finch
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