Fyodor Yurchikhin News
The spacewalkers left the station's Pirs airlock at approximately 10:45 a.m EDT to deploy several nanosatellites, collect research samples, perform structural maintenance and to install handrails and struts to facilitate future excursions.
The spacewalkers will be involved in collecting residue samples from various locations outside the Russian segment of the station and install handrails and struts to facilitate future excursions.
Russian cosmonauts all set to take the reins for seventh spacewalk of 2017 outside ISS on August 17!
This time, it is the Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS who are going to be taking the reins of the space event.
After a six-hour flight, the two new crew member finally arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and his Expedition 51-52 crewmate Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are on the docket for this flight, scheduled for take off at 3:13 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 20 (1:13 p.m. Baikonur time), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft.
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