NASA will conduct a spacewalk on April 25 (Florida time) with two Roscosmos cosmonauts expected to spend up to seven hours outside the International Space Station. Live coverage on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and NASA’s website will start at 10.30 a.m. (12.30 a.m. on April 26, AEDT time), with the spacewalk expected to start a short time later.
Expedition 71 crewmates Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will venture outside the station’s Poisk airlock to complete the deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar system on the Nauka module. The two cosmonauts will also install equipment and experiments on the Poisk module to analyze the level of corrosion on station surfaces and modules.
The spacewalk will be the 270th in support of ISS. It will be the seventh spacewalk for Kononenko, who will wear the Orlan spacesuit with the red stripes, and the second for Chub, who will wear the spacesuit with the blue stripes.
