Activities on the space station continue despite the Soyuz change
In Washington The International Space
Station is mostly operating as usual as NASA adjusts its present operations and
future plans in response to Russia's decision to replace a damaged Soyuz
spacecraft parked there.
An installation spacewalk for a mounting
bracket for a new solar array that will be transported to the station on a
future cargo trip will be carried out on January 20 by NASA astronaut Nicole
Mann and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata. The first spacewalk for both astronauts
is expected to last between six and seven hours.
The spacewalk is evidence that the damage
incurred by the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which arrived there on December 14, and
which Roscosmos and NASA have attributed to a micrometeoroid hit, is primarily
having little impact on activities on the space station.
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