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<\/a>The Expedition 69<\/a> crew is getting ready for its second spacewalk in less than a week at the International Space Station<\/a>. In the meantime, several astronauts are relaxing today following last week\u2019s power upgrades spacewalk.<\/p>\n Commander Sergey Prokopyev<\/a> and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin<\/a>, both from Roscosmos, spent Monday configuring the Orlan spacesuits they will wear during their spacewalk planned to start at 4:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday<\/a> and last about six hours. The pair checked the Orlans\u2019 life support systems, tested communications gear, then installed video cameras and lights on their suits. They will finalize their tool configurations and procedure reviews on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Spacewalkers Prokopyev and Petelin, who are going on their third excursion together, will exit the Poisk airlock<\/a> on Wednesday, translate toward the Rassvet module<\/a>, and uninstall an experiment airlock. Next, Flight Engineer Andrey Fedyaev<\/a> will be inside the station commanding the European robotic arm (ERA) to grapple the airlock, move it, then attach it to the Nauka science module<\/a>. The two spacewalkers will then connect power cables to the airlock completing its installation on Nauka. NASA TV, on the agency\u2019s app<\/a> and website<\/a>, will begin its live spacewalk coverage at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Fedyaev spent Monday focusing mainly on life support maintenance and orbital plumbing duties. He also had time to participate in an ongoing study exploring ways international crews and mission controllers from the around world can communicate more effectively. Fedyaev will spend Tuesday activating the ERA in preparation for Wednesday\u2019s spacewalk.<\/p>\n The rest of the station\u2019s crew had Monday off following last week\u2019s spacewalk and post-spacewalk cleanup activities. Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen<\/a> of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi<\/a> of UAE (United Arab Emirates) relaxed at the beginning of the workweek following Friday\u2019s seven-hour and 1-minute spacewalk<\/a> that saw them route cables and install insulation on the orbital outpost\u2019s starboard-side truss structure. NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg<\/a> and Frank Rubio<\/a>, who assisted the spacewalkers from inside the station and helped them clean up after the spacewalk last week, also had the day off.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get weekly video highlights at:\u00a0https:\/\/roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov\/videupdate\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here:\u00a0www.nasa.gov\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Expedition 69 crew is getting ready for its second spacewalk in less than a week at the International Space Station. In the meantime, several astronauts are relaxing today following last week\u2019s power upgrades spacewalk. Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin, both from Roscosmos, spent Monday configuring the Orlan spacesuits they will wear \u2026 Continue reading
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