Roscosmos Cosmonauts Plan 5-Hour ISS Spacewalk for Experiment Install and Antenna Check
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Updated · NASA · May 22
Roscosmos Cosmonauts Plan 5-Hour ISS Spacewalk for Experiment Install and Antenna Check
6 articles · Updated · NASA · May 22
May 27 at 10:15 a.m. EDT, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are scheduled to begin a roughly five-hour spacewalk outside the ISS.
The pair will install a solar radiation experiment on the Zvezda service module and remove science hardware from the Poisk and Nauka modules on the Russian segment.
If time allows, they will also photograph a Kurs rendezvous antenna on the Progress 94 cargo craft that failed to deploy after its March launch.
The outing will be Kud-Sverchkov's second spacewalk, Mikaev's first, and the 279th spacewalk supporting ISS assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
NASA plans live coverage from 9:45 a.m. EDT on NASA+, Amazon Prime and YouTube.
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