{"id":696512,"date":"2026-05-27T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:56:11","slug":"watch-2-russian-cosmonauts-take-5-hour-spacewalk-outside-the-iss-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696512\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts take 5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roscosmos Spacewalk 66 – YouTube
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Two cosmonauts will venture into the void today (May 27), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos<\/a>, will perform a five-hour spacewalk<\/a> outside the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) today, starting at about 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT).<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency<\/a>. Coverage will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT).<\/p>\n

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Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov is seen at the end of the European robotic arm as he works on a high\u2011resolution camera during a 6-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 16, 2025. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev “will install a solar radiation experiment on the Zvezda service module and remove other science hardware from the Poisk and Nauka modules of the orbiting complex’s Roscosmos segment,” NASA officials wrote in a May 22 description of the spacewalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“If time allows, the duo also will photograph one of the Progress<\/a> 94 cargo spacecraft’s Kurs rendezvous antennas, which failed to deploy<\/a> in March following its launch to the space station,” they added.<\/p>\n

It will be the second extravehicular activity (EVA) for Kud-Sverchkov, who commands the ISS’ current Expedition 74 mission, and the first for Mikaev, a flight engineer. You’ll be able to tell them apart: Kud-Sverchkov’s spacesuit<\/a> will have red stripes, and Mikaev’s will have blue stripes.<\/p>\n

Today’s EVA will be the second of 2026; NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams conducted a seven-hour spacewalk on March 18<\/a> to help prepare the ISS for a new solar array.<\/p>\n

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To date, astronauts have performed 278 spacewalks outside the ISS, which has hosted rotating crews continuously since Nov. 2, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roscosmos Spacewalk 66 – YouTube Watch On Two cosmonauts will venture into the void today (May 27), and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-696512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}