Cosmonauts Conduct Space Station Science, Maintenance Spacewalk

Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin conducts a spacewalk.

Credit: NASA+
HOUSTON—Two cosmonauts ventured outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Dec. 19 for a more than 7-hr. spacewalk to install and gather external science experiments and upgrade the orbital lab’s 37-ft.-long European robot arm. Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagnerts began the...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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