Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev conducted their second spacewalk in as many weeks to release launch restraints on the European Robotic Arm (ERA) mounted on the Nauka Multipurpose Module. The arm, which will be used to move people and payloads around the Russian segment of the station, moved a short distance away from grapple points on Nauka, release its twin end effectors one at a time in an initial test of its mobility. It is the 250th spacewalk in support of station, assembly, maintenance and upgrades, the fifth for Artemyev and the second for Matveev.

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