Spacewalkers prep for arrival of new Russian module

Two Russian cosmonauts used the International Space Station’s Poisk docking compartment as an airlock for the first time Wednesday in a six-hour 48-minute spacewalk to begin preparing the nearly identical Pirs module for removal next year. A new laboratory module will be parked in its place later. Expedition 64 commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov began the year’s eighth spacewalk at 10:12 a.m. EST. The excursion, the first for both cosmonauts, came just two days after arrival of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon commercial ferry ship. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 19)