Busy Work Week Amidst Preps for Cargo Ship and Spacewalk

The six-member Expedition 26 crew is wrapping up a busy week of science and preparations for the arrival of a Japanese cargo ship. The crew also continues to set up spacesuits and review procedures for a Russian spacewalk scheduled for Jan. 21.

Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Scripochka will exit the Pirs docking compartment next week beginning the first Expedition 26 spacewalk. The cosmonauts will outfit the Russian segment of the space station with science experiments and a vid [...]

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