This is the first mission conducted by a European woman
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The first spacewalk by the Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first conducted by a European woman. The walk can take up to 7 hours. Cristoforetti will carry out, during the extravehicular mission (Eva), an activity together with Oleg Artemyev, cosmonaut of the Russian space agency Roscomos.Cristoforetti arrived on Iss at the end of last April 27 for the six-monthly mission Minerva, together with the American astronauts of the Crew -4 aboard SpaceX’s Crew dragon capsule.The spacewalk, also called extravehicular activity or Eva, sees Cristoforetti and Artemyev engaging in a variety of activities, including installing platforms and the workstation adapter mounted on the Nauka laboratory module The two astronauts will launch ten nano satellites designed to collect radio-electronic data, and will position a telescopic arm from Zarya to Poisk to provide support for future spacewalks. The two will work, among other things, on the ERA (European Robotic Arm) program. ) the first robot capable of “walking” around the Russian segment of the International Space Station And. Lightweight and powerful, over 11 meters long, the arm has the ability to anchor itself to fixed points of the Station and to move back and forth on its own. It will serve as the main manipulator arm in the Russian part of the Space Station. Its seven joints can handle payloads of several tons, with a wide range of motion for assembly tasks
July 21, 2022 – Updated July 21, 2022, 10:50 pm
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