On Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 17:24 Moscow time, ISS-41/42 Maxim Surayev and flight engineer Alexander Samokutyaev come out in open space. A native of Penza Alexander Samokutyayev will perform the work in accordance with the program of the ISS, watch them live will be on the site of Roscosmos.
This will be the 40th spacewalk on the ISS. The plan works astronauts will spend outside the station for about six hours. During this time Samokutyayev and his partner must complete dismantling of radiometric complex of Kazakhstan 21-8, removing the protective cover monoblock scientific equipment Expose-R and dismantling of antennas and 2ASF1-1 2ASF1-2 with MIM-2 module.
«Within the space experiment” Test “astronauts using scientific equipment to collect available on the ISS microorganisms conduct sampling window with the HV-2 docking module” Pierce “, – said the press service of the Russian Space Agency.
Recall: for Alexander and Maxima Samokutyaeva Suraeva this is the second spacewalk of their career. His first flight into space Alexander Samokutyayev made 5 April 2011 on the ship Soyuz TMA-21. April 7, 2011 after the docking of the Soyuz TMA-21 to the ISS, he will take the flight engineer of ISS-27/28.
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