Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner completed their spacewalk on December 19 at 5:53 p.m. EST after seven hours and 17 minutes.
Ovchinin and Vagner accomplished all of their major goals, including the installation of a set of experiments designed to monitor celestial X-ray sources and new electrical connector patch panels, as well as the removal of several experiments in preparation for their elimination. The two cosmonauts were unable to achieve their non-critical final objective due to time constraints, namely moving a control panel of the European robotic arm, attached to the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
This was the second spacewalk of Ovinchin’s career and the first for Vagner. This is the 272nd spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
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