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Robert Z. Pearlman

Russian cosmonauts relocate airlock on International Space Station spacewalk

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin work to connect cables to a newly relocated equipment airlock from the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a May 3, 2023 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

Two Russian cosmonauts reentered an airlock after successfully relocating a different airlock during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

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.

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