LIVESTREAM: ISS Spacewalk Coverage Begins At 9:15 a.m.
By Space Coast Daily // June 19, 2014
cosmonauts will install communications equipment on the Zvezda service module
ABOVE VIDEO: Tune in to SpaceCoastDaily.com to catch the live stream of the spacewalk of ISS Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency starting at 9:15 a.m. today
Tune in to SpaceCoastDaily.com to watch live coverage via NASA TV of the six-and-a-half hour spacewalk by two Russian International Space Station crew members beginning at 9:15 a.m. today.
Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency will don their Orlan spacesuits and exit the Pirs airlock at 9:50 a.m. to install new communications equipment on the Zvezda service module.
They also will reposition hardware.
The spacewalk will be the 180th in support of space station assembly and maintenance and the first for both Skvortsov and Artemyev.
Another spacewalk for the pair is planned for late August.
Skvortsov will be designated as extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1) and will wear a spacesuit bearing red stripes.
Artemyev will be designated as extravehicular crew member 2 (EV2) and will wear a suit with blue stripes.
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