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MOSCOW, November 19. / TAX /. Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov completed open space work outside the International Space Station (ISS) in preparation for docking the Nauka multifunctional laboratory module, the broadcast was conducted on the NASA and Roscosmos websites .
For both astronauts, this was the first spacewalk of their careers. It was also the first extravehicular activity associated with preparations for the launch of the Nauka multifunctional laboratory module in April 2021.
Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov went into space through the exit hatch of the small Poisk research module, which hadn’t been opened for about 11 years. Previously, extravehicular activities were carried out from the Pirs docking compartment on the Russian segment of the ISS, but in 2021 the Pirs module will be flooded before launching the Nauka multifunctional laboratory module at the station.
US astronauts supported Russian crew members from the ISS.
Russian cosmonauts spent 6 hours and 47 minutes outside the station. They performed work on extravehicular activities with Orlan-ISS space suits. The previous spacewalk took place on May 29, 2019.
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