Russian Cosmonauts Sergey & Dmitri on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Russian Cosmonauts Sergey & Dmitri on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Russian Cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin & Sergey Prokopyev during a spacewalk. The European robotic arm extends from the Nauka science module to which the Prichal module and the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship are attached.

    

Roscosmos cosmonaut & Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sergey Prokopyev is pictured in his Orlan spacesuit during a six-hour and 35-minute spacewalk. Sergey Prokopyev is the current commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 69.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Russia concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 5:19 p.m. EDT on Aug. 9, 2023, after 6 hours and 35 minutes.

Prokopyev and Petelin attached three debris shields to the Rassvet module and tested the sturdiness of a work platform affixed to the end of the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

This was the eighth spacewalk in Prokopyev’s career, and the sixth for Petelin. It was the tenth spacewalk at the station in 2023 and the 267th spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

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Expedition 69 Crew (August 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Capture Date: August 9, 2023

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