Russian cosmonauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

STORY: Russian cosmonauts complete seven-hour spacewalk DATELINE: May 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:07 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of cosmonauts conducting spacewalk (Source: Roscosmos) STORYLINE: Two Russian cosmonauts finished their second spacewalk this year from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, according to a live broadcast by Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos. Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin exited the Poisk module at 11:00 p.m. Moscow time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday and started their extravehicular activity. The main task of their seven-hour-and-11-minute spacewalk was to relocate an airlock chamber from the Rassvet module to the Nauka module, using a robotic arm controlled by another Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev inside the ISS. The cosmonauts encountered some difficulties when trying to connect the chamber to Nauka due to a misalignment of docking units. They managed to fix the problem with the help of ground specialists and successfull

Russian and Italian astronauts conduct joint spacewalk to activate robotic arm

STORY: Russian and Italian astronauts conduct joint spacewalk to activate robotic arm DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of astronauts (from NASA) STORYLINE: Russian astronaut Oleg Artemyev and Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti conducted a joint spacewalk to activate a robotic arm in the International Space Station on Thursday. They installed an adapter for the European Robotic Arm on the Poisk module, Roscosmos said on Telegram. Roscosmos said an ERA adapter will later be installed on the Rassvet module in order to install it on the Nauka module. The spacewalkers earlier launched 10 nanosatellites. The 11-meter (37-foot) mechanical limb was sent into orbit by the European Space Agency last July. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow. (XHTV)