NASA Television to Air June 24 Space Station Spacewalk

June 19, 2013

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
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jbuck@nasa.gov

Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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josh.byerly@nasa.gov


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NASA TELEVISION TO AIR JUNE 24 SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage when two
members of the Expedition 36 crew venture outside the International
Space Station on Monday, June 24. The pair will conduct a six-hour
spacewalk in preparation for the addition of a new Russian module
later this year.

NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk by Russian flight engineers Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will begin at 9 a.m. EDT. Yurchikin
and Misurkin will begin the spacewalk about 9:35 a.m. when they open
the hatch to the space station's Pirs docking compartment and float
outside.

They will replace a fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya
module and install clamps for future power cables as an early step
toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory
module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a
combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this
year on a Proton rocket.

Yurchikhin and Misurkin also will retrieve several science experiments
on the outside of the Zvezda service module.

The spacewalk will be the 169th in support of space station assembly
and maintenance, the sixth for Yurchikhin and the first for Misurkin.
Yurchikhin will wear an Orlan-MK spacesuit with red stripes while
Misurkin will wear a suit with blue stripes. Both spacewalkers will
be equipped with NASA helmet cameras to provide close-up views of
their work.

This is the second of up to six Russian spacewalks planned for this
year. Two U.S. spacewalks by NASA's Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano
of the European Space Agency are scheduled in July.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/station


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