Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk for Scientific Hardware Work

by | May 27, 2026 | Climate Change

Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev exited the International Space Station at 10:18 a.m. EDT, beginning a spacewalk to remove two completed science experiments from the Poisk and Nauka modules and to install a new solar radiation-measuring device on the Zvezda service module. 

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The spacewalk is planned to last about five hours. Kud-Sverchkov is wearing an Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, and Mikaev is wearing a suit with blue stripes.

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Mark A. GarciaMay 27, 2026 10:21AM

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