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Two Russian astronauts conducted a spacewalk to prepare the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) for the arrival of a new science module.
Russia’s 47th spacewalk lasted six hours and 48 minutes on Wednesday, the country’s state-owned space company Roscosmos said in a statement.
It was the first time that Roscosmos astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov used the Poisk (Search) module as an exit to space rather than the Pirs (Pier) module, which will be dropped in the near future.
The astronauts carried out leak inspections, installed the necessary equipment and prepared for the Nauka (Science) multifunctional research module, which is expected to replace the Pirs module next year.
The Poisk module launched 11 years ago is used to dock Russian manned Soyuz spaceships, which were the only tool for commuting between the ISS and Earth before the American company SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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