A Russian spacewalk was completed outside the International Space Station (ISS) to continue preparations to fully activate the Russian Nauka science module, which was launched to the station precisely one year ago today.
The spacewalk features a non-Russian crewmember, which is a rare occurrence on Russian EVAs, or extravehicular activities. The spacewalking duo of cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) began their EVA at 14:50 UTC.