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WKTV, NASA to feature Russian spacewalk on Aug. 15

Expedition 56 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev (left) and Sergey Prokopyev, both cosmonauts from Roscosmos, work on maintenance activities activities inside the International Space Station’s Columbus laboratory module from ESA (NASA/European Space Agency).

 

By Kelly Taylor

WKTV Program Director

 

On Wednesday, Aug. 15, WKTV will be featuring coverage of the Space Station Expedition 56 Russian Spacewalk at  the International Space Station. The spacewalk is scheduled  to being at 11:58am and will last approximately six hours and 50 minutes.

 

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev have been reviewing the translation paths to their work sites on the outside of the station’s Russian segment. During the nearly seven-hour excursion, the space walkers will hand-deploy four tiny satellites, install antennas and cables on the Zvezda service module and collect exposed science experiments.

 

For more information on NASA TV or the International Space Station, log on to www.nasa.gov.

 

NASA TV can be seen on the WKTV 26 Government Channel on Comcast and AT&T U-verse 99 Government Channel 99.