Two cosmonauts are in final preparations for the year’s 10th spacewalk out of the International Space Station set to begin at 10:45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin will exit the Poisk airlock in their Orlan spacesuits and spend about six and a half hours installing micrometeoroid orbital debris shields and relocating hardware.
The duo from Roscosmos spent Monday configuring communications gear and checking their spacesuits for leaks. This will be Prokopyev’s and Petelin’s sixth spacewalk together since their first on Nov. 17, 2022.
The two spacewalkers are pictured here during their first spacewalk together preparing a radiator for installation on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
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