Sept 9, to conduct the first pair of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the NEW NAUKA multipurpose laboratory module for operation in space. Nasa will provide live coverage for both spacewalks and extravehicular activities on NASA television the NASA app and the agency website.
Coverage Friday, Sept 3, will begin at 10 A.m EDT, with the spacewalks scheduled to begin at approx
10 a.m with the spacewalk expected to begin at 11 a.m The first space- walk called Russian space- walk EVA49, could last up to seven hours while the second spacewalk Russian EVA 50, is scheduled to last about five hours.
Expedition 65 flight engineers OLEG NOVTISKIY and PYOTR DUBRO of Roscosmos will exit the Poisk module on the space-facing side of the station – segment. During the spacewalks the cosmonauts
Will install handrails on Nauka and connect power, Ethernet, and data cables between recently arrived modules.
Novitskiy who is designated as extravehicular crew member 1 will wear a Russian Orlan spacesuit
With red stripes. Dubrov will wear the space suit with blue stripes as an extravehicular crew member
2. These will be the second and third spacewalks for both cosm nuts the 242nd and 243rd
Spacewalks in support of space station assembly maintenance and upgrades and the 10th and 11th spacewalks at the station in 2021.
Nauka launched on Russian proton –M- rocket on July 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked automatically to earth facing Zvezda port.
