Two Russian cosmonauts paused their spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Wednesday to watch space debris float away as part of a planned maneuver.
Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin successfully completed the seven-hour spacewalk on May 3 at 11:11 p.m. EDT. The walk's main objective was relocating an experiment airlock from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module.
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The debris, which is approximately 11 pounds and made up of used hardware, will harmlessly burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
"Alright, bye, bye," Prokopyev said when releasing the discarded space trash. "It flies beautifully."
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Expedition 69 flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev also helped complete the mission on Wednesday, from inside the station. Fedyaev operated a robotic arm to grab hold of the airlock and transport it to the Nauka module. The relocated airlock is intended to deploy Russian experiment pallets and satellites from inside the module, according to Space.com.
The spacewalk marked the fifth spacewalk in 2023 and the fifth in Prokopyev’s career. It is the third in Petelin's. Both men will partake in another spacewalk on Friday, May 12, to deploy a radiator on the Nauka module and connect mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic lines. The men previously worked together on a similar mission in April.
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