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Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Artemyev during a spacewalk

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Artemyev during a spacewalk
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev lays cable for the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment on the Zvezda service module during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours 46 minutes.

iss056e142790 (Aug. 15, 2018) — Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev lays cable for the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment on the Zvezda service module during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours 46 minutes. Fellow cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (in the suit with red stripes) joined Prokopyev during the spacewalk which also saw the deployment of four nano-satellites and the retrieval of a materials exposure experiment on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.