So far the spacewalk has commenced successfully, with no complications, running slightly ahead of schedule as cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) embark on their mission.
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The other crewmembers – NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, Russian Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui of the Japanese space agency – remain inside the station. “The applications are variety of a kind of jim clean cloth”, spacewalk…
It was the ninth spacewalk of Padalka, 57, and the second one for Kornienko, 55.
Prior to the start of the live coverage, watch as NASA Commentator Dan Huot and spacewalk specialist Devan Bolch discuss what will go on during the EVA (watch below).
The tasks facing them were much more arduous – they installed equipment that’ll help other crew maneuver outside ISS; performed some maintenance on experiments and retrieved one that explored the effect of superheated gas on the ISS hull, Space.com added; and took some snapshots of the station’s Russian section. “It’s kind of similar to what you would use on your vehicle headlights, when they get hazy, to clean them”.
An old antenna was discarded by the cosmonauts, who threw it into space.
As per the NASA, the latest spacewalk was the 188th outside the ISS. Experts said that the antenna would not be orbiting for long and will re-enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up in a few weeks. Even simple the task of washing a window takes some special preparation when conducted on the space station.
The spacewalkers wore Russian Orlan spacesuits bearing blue stripes during their EVA.
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On August. 10, 2015, a cosmonaut floats (upside down just below and left of center) outside the global Space Station during Russian EVA 41. It is also the 10th for Padalka, who now holds the record as the most experienced space flier in the world. The next effort by NASA will be to grow and harvest zinnias in space, the first attempt at growing a flowering plant.
