Thursday, April 25, 2024

NASA Shares Spacewalk Plan for Russian Cosmonauts | International Space Station

NASA Shares Spacewalk Plan for Russian Cosmonauts | International Space Station

This animation discusses the upcoming spacewalk for Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia. Kononenko is the current commander of the International Space Station. They will egress the Poisk airlock to complete the deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar system on the Nauka module and install equipment and experiments on the Poisk module to analyze the level of corrosion on station surfaces and modules. It will be the 270th spacewalk in support of station maintenance and upgrades, the seventh for Kononenko and the second for Chub.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

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.


Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: April 24, 2024

 

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