Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrovnik have completed their spacewalk, within which they began work on the integration of the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, a Roscosmos state-owned company reported on Twitter.
Novitsky and Dubrovnik & nbsp; spent 7 & nbsp; hours 52 minutes in open space. They connected the power cables to the Science module and also connected an Ethernet cable to it. According to the Flight Control Center, the cables have been tested successfully.
It was reported that when the covers were removed from the power cables in Nauka; one cover flew off, but Piotr Dubrovnik was able to grab it and put it in a trash bag.
According to TASS, it was decided to postpone some tasks. & nbsp; In particular, we are talking about the refusal to photograph the connectors and the mounting of an installation platform with three containers from the Biorisk-MSN experiment. Also, part of the handrails were not installed.
The Nauka module was launched towards the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Proton-M rocket. July 21. On July 29, she successfully moored at the ISS. The module started to be built in & nbsp; in 1997 and was due to launch in 2007, but this was not done at the agreed time. & Nbsp;
The next spacewalk as part of the “ Science & # 39; & # 39; & # 39; s multipurpose lab module integration scheduled for September 9.