LOS ANGELES, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin conducted a spacewalk on Thursday to retrieve and replace hardware on the International Space Station (ISS), according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The two cosmonauts started their spacewalk at 10:24 a.m. Eastern Time, and are scheduled to retrieve several experiment packages from the Zvezda and Poisk modules, and install communications equipment outside the ISS.

This is the seventh spacewalk in Prokopyev's career, and the fifth for Petelin.

It is the ninth spacewalk at the station in 2023 and the 266th spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades, according to NASA. Enditem

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