Expedition 69 crew members, NASAs Stephen Bowen and UAEs Sultan Alneyadi, are preparing for a Friday spacewalk to update the International Space Stations power system. Russian cosmonauts completed a fitness examination for their upcoming spacewalk, and a Roscosmos Flight Engineer tested the European robotic arm.
Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) are settling their tool collections and Quest airlock configurations the day before their six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk starts. NASA TELEVISION, on the agencys app and site, will start its live spacewalk protection at 7:45 a.m.
NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg participated got involved todays final spacewalk preparations joining signing up with spacewalkers for a procedures treatments, tool checks, and a conference with engineers on the ground.
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, STS-133 objective specialist, postures for an image during a spacewalk on March 2, 2011, when he was conducting hardware upkeep on the outside of the area station. Credit: NASA
Expedition 69 team members, NASAs Stephen Bowen and UAEs Sultan Alneyadi, are getting ready for a Friday spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Stations power system. This precedes the installation of brand-new solar varieties to be delivered by the next SpaceX objective. Russian cosmonauts completed a physical fitness assessment for their approaching spacewalk, and a Roscosmos Flight Engineer checked the European robotic arm.
The Expedition 69 crew is all set for a spacewalk set to begin on Friday to upgrade the International Space Stations power generation system. In the meantime, physical fitness evaluations and robotic tests rounded out the schedule aboard the orbital station on Thursday.
Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) are completing their tool collections and Quest airlock configurations the day prior to their six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk starts. They staged their Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), or spacesuits, inside Quest and finished studying the procedures they will utilize to path power cables and obtain an antenna on the stations starboard truss structure. The external hardware work will all set the spaceport station for its next set of roll-out solar varieties due to be set up after their shipment on the next SpaceX Dragon freight mission.
Bowen and Alneyadi will set their EMUs to battery power at around 9:15 am. EDT on Friday representing the beginning of their spacewalk. This will be Bowens eighth profession spacewalk, Alneyadis very first, and the fourth of 2023. NASA TELEVISION, on the firms app and site, will start its live spacewalk coverage at 7:45 a.m.
NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg took part in todays last spacewalk preparations signing up with the spacewalkers for a treatments evaluation, tool checks, and a conference with engineers on the ground. Rubio and Hoburg, on Friday, will assist the spacewalkers in and out of their spacesuits, navigate the Canadarm2 robotic arm, and monitor their activities.
The fitness research study ensures the set is in excellent shape ahead of a spacewalk planned to start at 4:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 3. Prokopyev and Petelin will exit the station in their Orlan spacesuits and invest about six hours moving an experiment airlock from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev spent his day inside the Nauka module testing operations with the European robotic arm (ERA). He practiced grappling the experiment airlock and maneuvering techniques with the ERA, the exact same maneuvers he will utilize to assist the Roscosmos spacewalkers during next weeks logistics spacewalk.