All eyes will be on Roskosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub as they launch into space in front of the International Space Station on April 25.
The Russian crew leaves the airlock of the Boysk station to complete the installation of the Navka module’s synthetic radar system panel. Two astronauts will install equipment on the Poisk module and conduct experiments to analyze the corrosion levels of the station’s surfaces and modules.
The spacewalk will be the seventh for Commander Kononenko, who will wear the red-striped Orlan spacesuit, and the second for Chubb’s flight engineer, who will wear the blue-striped spacesuit.
The Expedition 71 spacewalk will begin at 10:55 a.m. on April 25 and is expected to last seven hours. NASA will broadcast the spacewalk on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube and the agency’s website.
Expedition 71 begins on April 5 and ends in September 2024. The group will investigate neurodegenerative diseases and treatments, space botany, fluid transitions in space and algae-based life support systems. The other members of the team are Tracy Tyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominic, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin.
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