Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk for Hardware, Science Work
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began a spacewalk at 10:57 a.m. EDT to complete the deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar communications system on the Russian segment of the complex and install equipment and experiments to analyze the level of corrosion on station surfaces and modules.
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Kononenko is wearing an Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, while Chub is wearing the suit with blue stripes. This is the seventh spacewalk in Kononenko's career, and the second for Chub. It is the 270th spacewalk?for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.
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