Watch two Russian cosmonauts take a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today - Space.com

They're going to get a new docking module ready for spacecraft.

Two Russian cosmonauts are planning to take a spacewalk today (Jan. 19) to ready a new International Space Station module for visiting spacecraft, and you can watch it live.

Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov, both of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will spend the day working together outside the International Space Station.

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The focus of this spacewalk's activities will be the Prichal module, which arrived at the space station Nov.

Prichal and the science module Nauka represent two major upgrades to Russian space facilities in orbit in the past few months.

The first spacecraft then will be a Russian Soyuz, crewed with three people as a part of the larger Expedition 67.

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