The two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin have successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk. During the field trip to the International Space Station, they attached new data transmission equipment to the station’s Russian segment, according to a livestream from Russia’s Roscosmos space agency Thursday. During the mission, they also dismantled research equipment that was attached to the outer skin of the ISS and brought it back to the station.
According to Roskosmos, Sergei Prokopyev worked in open space outside the ISS for the seventh time. This was Petelin’s fifth spacewalk. The two cosmonauts, together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, came to the ISS on September 21, 2022 in a Russian Soyuz capsule. They are scheduled to return to Earth in the fall after damage to this capsule unscheduled their mission.
