Posted on 04/19/2023 9:25:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
ISS Expedition 69 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, seen to the right, work outside the International Space Station Tuesday night during their six-hour-and-40-minute spacewalk. Screenshot courtesy of NASA April 18 (UPI) -- Two Russian cosmonauts are conducting a more than six-hour spacewalk Tuesday night outside the International Space Station in their third attempt to move a radiator and an experiment module.
The six-hour-and-40-minute excursion by ISS Expedition 69 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, who are equipped with helmet cameras, got underway at 9:40 p.m. EDT.
"Spacewalkers Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are currently outside the space station working to move a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka module," the International Space Station tweeted Tuesday night.
VIDEO AT LINK.................
Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev is assisting with robotic activities from inside the ISS using the European Space Agency's robotic arm.
Prokopyev, who is wearing an Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, and Petelin, who is wearing a suit with blue stripes, have already made two previous attempts at the spacewalk. However, an attempt in November had to be aborted because of a failed spacesuit pump. Then in December, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft suffered a coolant leak, forcing the attempt to be called off again.
Tuesday night's spacewalk is the fourth of Prokopyev's career and the second for Petelin, according to NASA. It is the third spacewalk at the ISS this year and is the 260th spacewalk for the space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
NASA said Tuesday that the pair had gotten a good night's sleep while the rest of the ISS crew "continued cleaning biology research hardware, conducted an eye and brain study and serviced a pair of spacesuits."
"NASA Flight Engineers Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen worked together Tuesday cleaning up the Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) located in the Kibo laboratory module," the agency said.
After Tuesday's walk, the pair are scheduled for two more excursions on April 25 and May 4.
Rocket 69?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz8rsBX19Qk
Spacewalking inside isn’t as dramatic.
Poisk (Russian: Поиск, lit. ‘Search’),
Spacewalking...
never been done before.
But, why was it ever called spacewalking. There is no ‘walking’ involved.
Spacefloating would have been more accurate.
But, we’re all floating in space, on a planet. We’re just drifting along, taken to who knows where.
Maybe a new word should be invented. "Zergging".
Zerg: (intransitive verb), to maneuver one's body in a zero G environment.
Use - "Hey Toots, zerg on over to the fridge and grab me a beer."
Doing about 100,000 mph........................
In Russia, space walks you...
The International Space Station (ISS) is in orbit around the Earth at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers). It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.0
You must be fun at parties... NOT
And that planet Earth is revolving around the Sun at a speed of nearly 30 kilometres per second, or 67,000 miles per hour.
And the Sun and it’s retinue of assorted balls of dirt, ice, gases and rocks is revolving around the Galactic center traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the galactic center.
And our our galaxy and its neighbors, the so-called Local Group, are moving at 600 kilometers per second (1.34 million miles per hour) in the direction of the constellation Hydra.................
Wait. What?
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