Station Crew Prepares for Spacewalk and Conducts Science

The six Expedition 24 crew members aboard the International Space Station continued their preparations for an upcoming spacewalk and worked on science activities Wednesday.

Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko prepared equipment they will take out of the Pirs docking compartment and into space during a six-hour spacewalk scheduled to begin the evening of July 26. The spacewalkers will prepare the recently delivered Rassvet module with a Kurs automated rendezvous capabilit [...]

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