Roscosmos General Manager Yuri Borisov said that the next time Russian cosmonauts will leave in April-May 2023. It has been reported DEA News.
He stressed that the scientific program will continue.
“In April-May, there will be a spacewalk to equip the Nauka module,” said Borisov, speaking at the Mission Control Center after the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft docked at the ISS.
The previous spacewalk under the Russian program took place in November 2022.
Cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin had to work four more times from the station to sea after this ascent, but had to be reprogrammed due to the depressurization of the spacecraft’s cooling system.
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which is expected to return the cosmonauts to Earth, replacing the damaged Soyuz MS-22 on February 26. docked To the Poisk module of the Russian division of the International Space Station.