NASA will provide live coverage on Wednesday, May 27, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT and last roughly five hours, with NASA’s coverage starting at 9:45 a.m. via NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency’s YouTube channel, according to a NASA media advisory.
Expedition 74 commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev are scheduled to install a solar radiation experiment on the Zvezda service module and remove other science hardware from the Poisk and Nauka modules on the Roscosmos segment of the station.
If time allows, the pair also will photograph one of the Progress 94 cargo spacecraft’s Kurs rendezvous antennas, which NASA said failed to deploy in March after the spacecraft launched to the space station.
The spacewalk is set to be Kud-Sverchkov’s second and Mikaev’s first. NASA said Kud-Sverchkov will wear a spacesuit with red stripes and Mikaev will wear a spacesuit with blue stripes.
NASA said the excursion will be the 279th spacewalk in support of International Space Station assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
