Expedition 64 Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours and 48 minutes.
The two cosmonauts opened the hatch to the Poisk module‘s airlock to begin the spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EST. They re-entered the airlock and closed the hatch at 5 p.m. EST.
During the spacewalk, the duo inspected the Poisk airlock for leaks, relocated an antenna from the Pirs module to Poisk, retrieved hardware that measures space debris impacts, and repositioned an instrument used to measure the residue from thruster firings. Additionally, the team retrieved and installed an impact tray on the Zvezda service module and took photos of the plume deflectors. The cosmonauts deferred the task of replacing the fluid flow regulator on the Zarya module to a future spacewalk.
It was the 232nd spacewalk in support of International Space Station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades, the eighth spacewalk of 2020, and the first spacewalk for both Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov.
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Will there be more spacewalks in the future.
Yes. Mission controllers are working on plans and schedules now.
Nice work! Google translate: Хорошая работа! Gute Arbeit!
Bon travail! よくやった！Yoku yatta! Bel lavoro! ¡Buen trabajo!
अच्छा काम!
Congratulations from Canada .
Sergey and Sergey , well done . I envy what you lads are seeing.
Thank you for your dedication and your work for all of humanity! Just wondering if cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is still up there? He wasn’t part of Wednesday’s space walk as far I can tell.
Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov were the two spacewalkers on Wednesday. Oleg Artemyev’s last mission was in 2018… http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition56/index.html
Are they in the daylight? Isn’t that a radiation risk? I’m glad they were successful! I hope they’ll be okay. Good job ISS!
There are radiation risks in space and the space station has a variety of radiation detectors to help astronauts and scientists monitor and understand the exposure risk. Here is more information about radiation research on the space station… https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/search.html?#q=radiation&i=&p=&c=&g=&s=