Two Russian cosmonauts are taking a spacewalk originate air the Worldwide Home Advise Wednesday (Nov. 18) to prepare the orbiting laboratory for a peculiar module, and you may well per chance per chance glimpse their six-hour tour are living online.
Expedition 64 Cmdr. Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Russia’s home agency Roscosmos — both first-time spacewalkers — will swimsuit up of their Russian Orlan spacesuits and exit the house explain via the Poisk module at roughly 9: 30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT). Ryzhikov, designated EV1 (short for “extravehicular crewmember 1”), will don a spacesuit with crimson stripes, while Kud-Sverchkov will sport blue stripes as EV2.
NASA TV will present are living coverage of the spacewalk starting up at 8: 30 a.m. EST (1330 GMT), or about one hour earlier than the starting up of the spacewalk, as NASA astronaut Kate Rubins helps the cosmonauts into their suits. You may well well per chance glimpse it are living right here, on Home.com, courtesy of NASA TV, or straight through the agency’s internet feature.
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With this spacewalk, the 2 Sergeys will start work to prepare the Worldwide Home Advise (ISS) for the advent of the unusual Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, additionally called Nauka (Russian for “science”). The lengthy-delayed science module became once in the starting up supposed to open in 2007, and after extra than a decade of delays, Roscosmos is gearing up to finally open Nauka in 2021.
For this reason can be the well-known time that anybody has broken-down the Poisk module as an airlock for a spacewalking tour, the cosmonauts will first exhaust some time checking out the hatch and inspecting it for leaks.
They’ll additionally pick up an antenna from the Pirs docking compartment and bring it again to the Poisk module, the well-known in a gaggle of steps to bag rid of Pirs altogether. Roscosmos plans to set up Nauka where Pirs is now, on the Zvezda service module of the Russian section of the ISS.
This may well well per chance steal a gaggle of spacewalks to decommission the Pirs compartment, after which a Progress cargo spacecraft will lift it a ways off from the ISS. Pirs can be destroyed in Earth’s ambiance upon reentry.
Other projects for this day’s spacewalk encompass changing a fluid drift regulator on the Zarya module, retrieving hardware that measures home debris impacts, and adjusting an instrument that measures residue from thruster firings, NASA officials acknowledged in an announcement.
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