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NASA Plans Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalks at Space Station

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin conduct a six-hour and 25-minute spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits to transfer a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for future installation.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin conduct a six-hour and 25-minute spacewalk in their Orlan spacesuits to transfer a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module for future installation. The duo is pictured tethered to the Rassvet module with the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship docked at top.
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Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated April 24, 2023, to adjust the planning dates for the two remaining Roscosmos spacewalks originally scheduled for April 25 and May 4 to allow additional preparation time. More coverage details will be provided when available.

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a series of spacewalks in April and May outside the International Space Station to relocate hardware from the Rassvet module to the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

Follow each spacewalk on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

During the spacewalks, Expedition 69 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will venture outside the Poisk airlock Tuesday, April 18, and in May to conduct the transfer and installation of a heat-rejecting radiator and an experiment airlock to Nauka. The airlock and the radiator attached to Rassvet were launched on the space shuttle Atlantis STS-132 mission in May 2010. The radiator and the airlock will be robotically transferred by ESA’s (European Space Agency) robotic arm on Nauka with those movements operated by cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev inside the orbital complex.

The content and coverage times of the spacewalks are (all times EDT):

Tuesday, April 18

9 p.m. – NASA TV coverage begins for a spacewalk to move a radiator on Rassvet to Nauka.

Early May

TBD – NASA TV coverage begins for a spacewalk to move an experiment airlock from Rassvet to Nauka.

TBD

TBD – NASA TV coverage begins for a spacewalk to deploy a radiator on Nauka and connect mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic lines.

The spacewalks will be the fourth, fifth and sixth for Prokopyev, who will wear the Orlan spacesuit with the red stripes for all of the spacewalks and the second, third and fourth for Petelin, who will wear the spacesuit with the blue stripes.

Learn more about the International Space Station and its crew at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

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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

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