Monday morning two members Russian members of the astronaut team aboard the International Space Station will conduct a 6-hour spacewalk. NASA Television will air the spacewalk live, and the agency will allow viewers to watch the ISS spacewalk online via live video stream of NASA TV.
The six-hour spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 27, and Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will step outside the ISS 40 minutes later.
Watch live streaming online video of ISS Space Station Spacewalk from NASA TV here
The live online NASA TV video will cover the astronaut pair as they make a second attempt to install a pair of cameras on the hull of the station’s Zvezda Service Module.
This spacewalk should be of particupar interest to internet video and image lovers here on the ground, as the cameras, which are part of a Canadian commercial endeavor with Roscosmos, are designed to downlink Earth observation imagery to Internet-based subscribers.
At the end of December, the astronauts made the first attempt to fix the camera system. However after ground controllers were still not receiving data, the team started a troubleshooting process and believes that they now have the fix.