(NewsNation) — Two Russian cosmonauts are have taken part in a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev from the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will perform a five-hour spacewalk, according to a statement from NASA.

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While in space, the duo installed a solar radiation experiment on the Zvezda service module and remove other science hardware from the Poisk and Nauka modules of the orbiting complex’s Roscosmos segment. And if time allows, they will also take pictures of one of the Progress 94 cargo spacecraft’s Kurs rendezvous antennas, NASA said.

Back in March, when the first ISS spacewalk of 2026 occurred, it failed to deploy following its launch to the space station.

This spacewalk will be the first for Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.

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