Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both with the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, completed their outing on Wednesday (May 3) at 11:11 p.m. EDT (0311 GMT May 4). During the 7 hour and 11 minute spacewalk, the cosmonauts oversaw the move of an equipment airlock from the side of one module to the side of another on the Russian segment of the space station.
Prokopyev and Petelin began the extravehicular activity (EVA) at 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) by first making their way to the Rassvet mini-research module, where the soon-to-be-moved airlock had been mounted since its launch on NASA's STS-132 space shuttle mission in May 2010. Once there, they disconnected six interface cables between the airlock and module, removed protective covers and unlocked launch locks to allow the airlock to be disconnected.
The work area and tasks were familiar to Prokopyev and Petelin, who previously worked together two weeks ago (April 18 to April 19) to similarly transfer a radiator from Rassvet to the same destination as the equipment airlock, the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, which was launched in July 2021.
Source: www.space.com
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