{"id":230200,"date":"2025-10-28T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230200\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:03:13","slug":"watch-2-russian-cosmonauts-spacewalk-outside-the-iss-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230200\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the ISS today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roscosmos Spacewalk 65 &#8211; YouTube<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761660192_92_maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Roscosmos Spacewalk 65 - YouTube\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"watch-on-youtube-1AHUqn0X4Hs\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1AHUqn0X4Hs\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1AHUqn0X4Hs\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"e63c39e1-36ec-46d3-bd8c-44d76e8bdb96\">A pair of cosmonauts will work outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the off-Earth action live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy, of the Russian space agency <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22724-roscosmos.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22724-roscosmos.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roscosmos<\/a>, will conduct a roughly six-hour <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewalk-history.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewalk-history.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spacewalk<\/a> today, starting at around 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1AHUqn0X4Hs\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1AHUqn0X4Hs\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">directly via the agency<\/a>. Coverage will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wTCPUbk4jWAGMPB3EL3zVC.jpg\" alt=\"closeup of a spacewalking astronaut's helmet and torso, with earth in the background\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wTCPUbk4jWAGMPB3EL3zVC.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wTCPUbk4jWAGMPB3EL3zVC.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov performs a spacewalk in support of science and maintenance on the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2014. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p id=\"9774a950-d8ea-4d45-83ac-a39a54596449\">The duo &#8220;will install experiment hardware on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module, and relocate a control panel for the European robotic arm attached to Nauka,&#8221; NASA News Chief Cheryl Warner wrote in an emailed statement on Monday (Oct. 27).<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"9774a950-d8ea-4d45-83ac-a39a54596449-1\">Most of NASA&#8217;s activities are on hold due to the ongoing <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/nasa-closes-doors-to-15-000-employees-as-us-government-shutdown-begins\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/nasa-closes-doors-to-15-000-employees-as-us-government-shutdown-begins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government shutdown<\/a>, but the agency will stream today&#8217;s spacewalk &#8220;and provide minimal technical commentary as this activity relates to excepted mission operations,&#8221; Warner wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second spacewalk in less than two weeks for Ryzhikov, who commands the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a>&#8216;s current Expedition 73, and flight engineer Zubritsky. The duo also performed an extravehicular activity <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/russian-cosmonauts-install-semiconductor-experiment-jettison-old-hdtv-camera-during-spacewalk-outside-iss\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/russian-cosmonauts-install-semiconductor-experiment-jettison-old-hdtv-camera-during-spacewalk-outside-iss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Oct. 16<\/a>, installing a semiconductor experiment on the orbiting lab and jettisoning an old HDTV camera.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dc1bafb0-759e-4d49-93d5-bb6f78e48aef\">Today&#8217;s spacewalk will be the third for Ryzhikov, who will wear a spacesuit with red stripes, and the second for for Zubritsky, whose suit will have blue stripes, according to Warner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n<p>It will be the 277th overall spacewalk in the history of the ISS, which has hosted rotating astronaut crews continuously since Nov. 2, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roscosmos Spacewalk 65 &#8211; YouTube Watch On A pair of cosmonauts will work outside the International Space Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}