Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the Rassvet module.
On November 17, two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly seven hours of spacewalking. The walk-in takes place for some hardware transfers and electronic connections on the International Space Station.
In the video shared by the space station on Instagram, the astronauts can be seen walking in space. However, it looks like they are floating when seeing Earth in the background.
Sharing the video on social media platforms, they wrote: “Astronauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are conducting the first of four Russian maintenance spacewalks planned in advance. this year on November 17, 2022, as the station orbits 260 miles above the coast of Brazil, the duo from Roscosmos prepared a radiator on the Rassvet module for installation on the laboratory module. Nauka versatile test.”
Based on NASA, it was the third spacewalk of Mr. Prokopyev’s career and Mr. Petelin’s first. This is the tenth spacewalk at the station in 2022 and the 255th spacewalk for the assembly, maintenance and upgrade of the space station.
The space agency also added that Mr. Prokopyev and Mr. Petelin had accomplished their main goal, preparing a radiator on the Rassvet module for installation on the Nauka multi-purpose laboratory module.
Since being shared, the post has garnered more than 4.3 lakh views and 96,000 likes. Many users were stunned when they saw the view from space.
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One user wrote, “Once viewed for a lifetime.”
“Walking in space is the most exciting thing ever,” said a second person.
“They are so brave! It must be scary out there,” said a third user.
A fourth user commented: “That must be awesome even if it’s for maintenance or when installing modules but I can also imagine it’s a bit scary.”
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