NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is imagined during a spacewalk tethered to the International Space Stations starboard truss structure. Behind Rubio, the last rays of an orbital sundown permeate Earths thin atmosphere as the area station flew 258 miles above the African nation of Algeria. Credit: NASA
2 Roscosmos cosmonauts are finalizing their preparations for a spacewalk on Thursday, November 17. They will be performing hardware transfers and making electronic devices connections on the International Space Station (ISS). Two NASA astronauts are cleaning up after a spacewalk on Tuesday, November 15. They performed tasks required to prepare the orbiting lab for a pair of rollout solar arrays. These will begin to be set up at the end of the month.
Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin are in final preparations for Thursdays spacewalk. This is set to begin at 9:20 a.m. EST (6:20 a.m. PST) with the goal to prepare a radiator and an airlock for installation on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Anna Kikina will operate the European robotic arm from inside Nauka and assist the duo operating in the microgravity environment in their Orlan spacesuits. NASA television will start live protection of the spacewalk at 9 a.m. on the agencys app and website.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out a spacewalk outside the Poisk module of the International Space Station to prepare a radiator for its moving from the Rassvet module to the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module. The radiator and an associated airlock introduced in 2010 on Rassvet on a space shuttle bus objective will continue the outfitting of the Nauka module for future usage as both a research study center and a second airlock for Russian-segment-based spacewalks. Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is envisioned throughout a spacewalk tethered to the International Space Stations starboard truss structure. Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin are in final preparations for Thursdays spacewalk. Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out a spacewalk outside the Poisk module of the International Space Station to prepare a radiator for its relocation from the Rassvet module to the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module. Dragon will take a day-and-a-half-long journey to the station carrying the next set of rollout solar selections, brand-new science experiments, station equipment, and team supplies.
NASA Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio invested 7 hours and 11 minutes working outside the orbiting laboratory on Tuesday in their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits. The duo assembled a mounting bracket on the stations starboard truss structure where new rollout solar varieties will be set up on upcoming spacewalks before the end of the year.
Today, November 16, the duo in addition to fellow Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) called down to mission controllers and gone over Tuesdays space activities. Cassada and Mann likewise partnered together to fill up spacesuit water tanks and power down suit components. Mann then signed up with Rubio in gathering spacewalk hardware and suit video cameras for sharing with the cosmonauts who will conduct the next spacewalk.
SpaceX is targeting the launch of its Dragon freight craft atop the Falcon 9 rocket to the space station at 4:19 p.m. EST (1:19 p.m. PST) on Monday, November 20. Dragon will take a day-and-a-half-long trip to the station carrying the next pair of rollout solar ranges, brand-new science experiments, station equipment, and crew products. It will dock automatically to the Harmony modules forward port at 9:43 a.m. on Wednesday, November 23,
