Russian cosmonauts in 2017 once come out into open space from the ISS – RIA Novosti

10:56 02.06.2016

(updated: 11:21 02.06.2016 )

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MOSCOW, June 2 -. RIA Novosti Russian cosmonauts in 2017 will make a spacewalk from the International space station (ISS), told journalists on Thursday Head of Cosmonaut training Center (CTC) Yuri Lonchakov.

“according to preliminary plans in the middle of 2017 we have planned a spacewalk by Russian flight program,” -. he said,

according Lonchakova in the course of work on the outside of the Russian segment of the ISS astronauts spend cleaning of one of the portholes, dismantle scientific equipment with the materials exposed to study the impact on their conditions of outer space, as well as carry out repairs of highly directional antennas on the service module “Zvezda”.

Lonchakov explained that the preliminary plan, which can be adjusted over time.

He also said that the astronauts were trained in advance to enter into space, before closing for renovation hydrolaboratory Cosmonaut Training Center. “These tasks astronauts worked previously in buoyancy to its statement on the repair They are all ready for extravehicular activity.” – Lonchakov told

Earlier, the ISS Russian Segment flight director Vladimir Solovyov reported that for the summer 2016 two planned. Released Russian astronauts in outer space, including the installation of equipment for the unit “Science”, the launch of which is scheduled for late 2017. As I explained then Solovyov, the module and the station will be connected a large number of interfaces that must be placed on the outside of the ISS, which involves work in open space. Then it became known that no spacewalks by Russian flight program will not take place in 2016.

This year, the Russian cosmonauts spacewalks once -. 3 February, Sergei Volkov and Yuri Malenchenko spent behind the station about five half hours. During this time, they took samples from the external surface of the station, launched into orbit a memory card with messages dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and conducted several experiments. Last year, the Russian program hosted one spacewalk: August 10, behind the station worked Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko

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