Editor’s Note: This advisory was revised Monday, Dec. 12, to reflect updates to the Roscosmos spacewalk schedule following the completion of a spacewalk on Nov. 17 and postponement of a spacewalk originally planned for Nov. 25.
NASA will provide coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a series of spacewalks in December outside the International Space Station to prepare hardware on the Rassvet module for installation on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
Watch live coverage of each spacewalk on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website at:
During the spacewalks, Expedition 68’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will venture outside of the Poisk module to oversee the transfer of a radiator and experiment airlock. Inside the orbital complex, cosmonaut Anna Kikina will control the ESA (European Space Agency) European robotic arm on Nauka to move the radiator and airlock into position for the spacewalkers.
The content and coverage times of the spacewalks are (all times EST):
Wednesday, Dec. 14
9 p.m. – NASA TV coverage begins for spacewalk to move the radiator on Rassvet to Nauka.
Wednesday, Dec. 21
2:30 p.m. – NASA TV coverage begins for spacewalk to move the experiment airlock from Rassvet to Nauka.
Learn more about the International Space Station and its crew at:
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Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov