This month, the International Space Station Experiditon 52 will feature a Russian Spacewalk with WKTV airing the six-hour event on Aug. 17 on channel 26.
The coverage of the spacewalk begins at 10:45 a.m. and is expected to last approximately six hours.
Expedition 52 is the 52nd expedition to the International Space Station. It officially started on June 2. It includes two cosmonauts from Russia, Fyodor Yurchikhin, who is serving as commander of the expedition, and Sergey Ryazansky, a flight engineer. There is one astronaut from Italy, Paolo Nespoli, who is a flight engineer. Rounding out the crew are three Americans, all serving as flight engineers, Jack Fischer, Randy Bresnik, and Peggy Whitson, who is the first woman astronaut to command the International Space Station twice and holds the record for most total days spent in space by amu NASA astronaut.
