Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur exercises inside the Destiny Laboratory. Image credit: NASA

Expedition 12 crew prepare
for second spacewalk

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur KC5ACR and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev have spent the week preparing for their second spacewalk.

Mission managers decided to push back the spacewalk one day to February 3, allowing the crew extra preparation time.

The spacewalkers will deploy an old Russian spacesuit that will act as an amateur radio transmitter, they will move a cargo boom adapter from one module to another, perform maintenance and retrieve experiments.

Commander Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS and Flight Engineer Jeffrey Williams KD5TVQ have been named to Expedition 13, the next crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station.

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