Cosmonauts Preparing for Spacewalk Live on NASA TV

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are pictured conducting a six-hour and 25-minute spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits on Nov. 17, 2022.
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are pictured conducting a six-hour and 25-minute spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits on Nov. 17, 2022.

NASA Television coverage is underway for today’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin. The duo, with assistance from European robotic arm operator cosmonaut Anna Kikina, will relocate a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module on the International Space Station Coverage of the spacewalk is on NASA Television the NASA app, and agency’s website.

Prokopyev and Petelin will exit out of the Poisk module at about 9:20 p.m. EST Prokopyev is wearing a Russian spacesuit with red stripes, while Petelin is wearing a Russian suit with blue stripes. This is the fourth spacewalk in Prokopyev’s career, and the second for Petelin. It is the 12th spacewalk at the station in 2022 and the 257th spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

Today’s spacewalk is a continuation of the duo’s previous space walk on Nov. 17 where they prepared the radiator for its relocation.


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