ISS crew will be released in the open space for the replacement unit on the outside of the station – TASS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. / Correspondent. Ivan Lebedev TASS /. The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) on January 15, will make a spacewalk to replace its external surface of the switching unit DC, broke down in November last year. As reported on Tuesday, NASA, the repair work will take US astronaut Tim Kopra and his British counterpart, Tim Peak.

“This will be the third spacewalk of his career copra and the first – for the Peak” – said the space agency USA. According to him, in addition to the replacement of the appliance, astronauts stretched cables for the future connection of the universal docking mechanism that will allow the new American manned spacecraft developed by Boeing and SpaceX, dock with the station.

NASA reminded that the power switching DC which transmits power from the solar cells inside the ISS, faulty November 13. Since then, the station cargo vehicle was delivered to the new device, which is now to be set on the outside of the orbital complex. Temporary failure in the power supply system in the US segment of the ISS did not stop her work and did not represent any threat to the safety of the crew.

However, copra and peak of cosmic watch on the ISS is now carried Russian cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov as well as the commander of the current expedition American Scott Kelly. Kornienko and Kelly arrived in March 2015 and should be the first, who worked at the station without interruption for almost a year. Previously, all the crews were there not more than six or seven months.