Russian spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko, right, and Sergey Prokopyev inspect the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station December 11, 2018 in Earth Orbit. During the spacewalk, he and fellow spacewalker Sergey Prokopyev, examined the external hull of the Soyuz crew ship docked to the Rassvet module. The area corresponded with the location of a small hole inside the Soyuz habitation module that was found in August and caused a decrease in the space station’s pressure. The hole was fixed internally with a sealant within hours of its detection. During the spacewalk, Kononenko
Russian spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko, right, and Sergey Prokopyev inspect the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station December 11, 2018 in Earth Orbit. During the spacewalk, he and fellow spacewalker Sergey Prokopyev, examined the external hull of the Soyuz crew ship docked to the Rassvet module. The area corresponded with the location of a small hole inside the Soyuz habitation module that was found in August and caused a decrease in the space station’s pressure. The hole was fixed internally with a sealant within hours of its detection. During the spacewalk, Kononenko and Prokopyev collected samples of some of the sealant that extruded through hole to the outer hull before heading back inside the Pirs docking compartment and closing the hatch completing a seven-hour, 45-minute spacewalk.
Size: 4928px × 2768px
Photo credit: © NASA Photo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 57, astronaut, boom, capsule, cosmonaut, cosmonauts, crew, damage, eva, expedition, horizontal, investigates, kononenko, nasa, oleg, prokopyev, repairs, roscosmos, science, sergey, ship, soyuz, space, spacecraft, spaceship, spacewalk, spacewalker, strela
