EVAs July 9th and 16th 2013

On July 9th and 16th Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will go outside the ISS to perform two spacewalks.  Each spacewalk is scheduled to last 6.5 hours. Cassidy and Parmitano will replace a space-to-ground communications receiver and wireless video equipment and install power and cables for a Russian multipurpose laboratory module that will be launched later this year. The new module will serve as a research facility, docking port and airlock for future Russian spacewalks and will replace the Pirs module.

Cassidy's call sign will be EV1 and Parmitano's call sign will be EV2.  Cassidy's spacesuit will have red stripes on it.  These two spacewalks will be Cassidy's 5th and 6th EVAs, but it will be Parmitano's first and second as well as him being the first Italian to perform a spacewalk.

You can follow both spacewalks on NASA TV,  http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

More info can be found at  http://www.nasa.gov/station

EVA 22 Tasks on 7/9/13

• Replace Space to Ground Transmitter Receiver Controller
• Retrieve the MISSE Expermient
• Install Radiator Grapple Bar
• Install Power jumper cross feeds for contingency use
• Install PMA2 Cover

EVA 23 Tasks on 7/16/13 

• Install 2nd power jumper on the Z1 truss
• Move the Wireless Video System External Transceiver Assembly
• Install a MLM Ethernet Cable