NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk Outside ISS

Sputnik comes live as NASA astronauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).

Two astronauts, Steve Bowen and UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, will exit the airlock to prepare cables for future ISS Rollout Solar Array installations and retrieve S-Band communications equipment from the ISS Truss.

The scheduled spacewalk of the Russian members of the present crew on the International Space Station, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, has been postponed from 26 April to early May as their future assignment needs more detailed planning, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Monday.