Russian cosmonauts return to the International Space Station after the first spacewalk of the year

2023-04-19 19:56:10

Updated Wednesday, April 19, 2023 –
19:56

The expedition, which has been broadcast live by NASA, has lasted a total of seven hours and 55 minutes and has been carried out by Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

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Company Russian Cosmonauts Roscosmos in the International Space Station (ISS), Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelinhave completed the first spacewalk this year after seven hours and 55 minutes outside the complex.

Prokopyev and Petelin have been able to complete the main objectives of the expedition, which included the relocation of a radiator from the module Rassvet to the Russian scientific module Science. The mission has ended successfully and has been broadcast live on NASA TV.

This has been the fourth spacewalk in Prokopyev’s career and the second for Petelin, who are included in the 260 missions that have been carried out for reasons of assembly, maintenance and updating of the space station.

Both cosmonauts will go out into space again on April 25 to move an experimental airlock from Rassvet to Nauka. In addition, an additional expedition is planned for May 4 to deploy the radiator in Nauka and connect the mechanical, electrical and hydraulic lines.

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