NASA’s live coverage begins Thursday at 9:45 a.m. EST. NASA+. Learn how to do it See NASA material Through multiple platforms including social media. The spacewalk will begin at approximately 10:10 a.m. and will last approximately six and a half hours.
Expedition 72 crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will venture outside the station’s Poisk module to install an experimental package designed to monitor celestial X-ray sources and new electrical connector patch panels. Several experiments will be removed for disposal. The two astronauts will also transport a control panel for the European robotic arm, which is attached to the Nuka multipurpose laboratory module. Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will operate the arm during a spacewalk from inside the station.
Roscosmos spacewalk 63 will be the second for Ovchinin and the first for Wagner. Ovchinen will wear an Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, and Wagner will wear a spacesuit with blue stripes. This will be the 272nd spacewalk in support of the assembly, maintenance and upgrades of the space station.
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