The two wanted to get the house station prepared.
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured out of the International Space Station Wednesday on a spacewalk to arrange for the arrival of a brand new Russian module.
It’s the primary spacewalk for each Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, who arrived at the house station in April, and it is anticipated to final about 6 1/2 hours.
The two wanted to get the house station prepared for the undocking and disposal of the Pirs docking compartment, which will likely be changed later this yr by the brand new Nauka (Science) multipurpose laboratory module.
They have already changed a fluid move regulator and likewise want to switch organic and materials science samples on the outside of the Russian modules.
The two Russians at the moment workforce up at the house outpost with NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide; and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
