Cosmonauts Finish spacewalk to ready to the space station for the new module

Cosmonauts Finish spacewalk to ready to the space station for the new module

Undertaking 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space office Roscosmos have finished a spacewalk enduring seven hours and 19 minutes.

The two cosmonauts opened the incubate to the Poisk docking compartment airtight chamber to start the spacewalk at 1:53 a.m. EDT. They reappeared the sealed area and shut the bring forth at 9:12 a.m.

During the spacewalk, the team detached the outside mechanical connections among Pirs and the space station, migrated spacewalk equipment including an extending crane, and reconfigured radio wires to set up the Pirs module for undocking and removal. Furthermore, the cosmonauts supplanted a liquid stream controller board on the close by Zarya module, discarded the old board as arranged, and supplanted organic and material science tests on the outside of the Russian modules.

Pirs will be supplanted by the new Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, named “Nauka,” which is Russian for “science.” The undocking of Pirs is planned for this late spring, around two days after Nauka dispatches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

This was the first spacewalk for the two cosmonauts and the 238th spacewalk generally speaking on the side of the International Space Station, getting together to support, and redesigns. It additionally denotes the 6th spacewalk of 2021.

During the spacewalk, the couple separated the outside mechanical connections among Pirs and the space station, moved spacewalk equipment including an extending crane, and reconfigured receiving wires to set up the Pirs module for undocking and removal. Also, the cosmonauts supplanted a liquid stream controller board on the close by Zarya module, discarded the old board as arranged, and supplanted natural and material science tests on the outside of the Russian modules.

Pirs will be supplanted by the new Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, named “Nauka,” which is Russian for “science.” The undocking of Pirs is planned for this mid-year, around two days after Nauka dispatches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

This was the first spacewalk for the two cosmonauts and the 238th spacewalk generally speaking on the side of the International Space Station get-together, support, and overhauls. It likewise denotes the 6th spacewalk of 2021.

SpaceX Dragon is on target to show up at the International Space Station tomorrow first thing June 5, with a normal catch of the freight space apparatus around 5 a.m. EDT. NASA Television inclusion will start at 3:30 a.m. Watch live at http://www.nasa.gov/live.

At the point when it shows up to the space station, Dragon will consequently dock to the space-confronting side (pinnacle) of the station’s Harmony module with NASA space explorers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur observing tasks. Winged serpent took off on Thursday, June 3, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The payload rocket with more than 7,300 pounds of examination, equipment, and supplies will uphold many examinations on board the circling lab. Winged serpent will join four other shuttles right now at the space station.

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