While watching the stream, I was surprised to hear the translator mention a GoPro camera. Sure enough, each of the cosmonauts has one strapped to his forearm. T

While watching the stream, I was surprised to hear the translator mention a GoPro camera. Sure enough, each of the cosmonauts has one strapped to his forearm. That's pretty cool to see consumer-grade technology attached to a spacewalk. Via G+[1]: International Space Station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) began a planned 6-hour spacewalk from the Earth-facing Pirs Docking Compartment at 9 a.m. EST. Kotov is performing his sixth spacewalk. This is Ryazanskiy's third spacewalk. Both cosmonauts are wearing Russian Orlan suits with blue stripes. Their suits are equipped with NASA helmet cameras to provide close-up views of the work they are performing outside the station. Kotov's helmet camera displays the number 18, and Ryazanskiy's displays the number 20. The duo also will be wearing a GoPro cameras on their forearms. Kotov will have a single strip of yellow tape around his GoPro camera, and Ryazanskiy will have two strips on his camera. This is the 178th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance. The spacewalking duo's task is to attempt again to install a pair of high fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module as part of a commercial arrangement between Roscosmos and a Canadian company to downlink Earth observation imagery. During their previous spacewalk on Dec. 27, Russian flight controllers were unable to receive telemetry from the cameras and instructed the spacewalking cosmonauts to bring the cameras back inside the Russian airlock. While outside the orbiting complex, Kotov and Ryazanskiy also plan to retrieve an experiment package housed on Zvezda's hull. Flight controllers at the Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside of Moscow, are providing primary support for the spacewalk and coordinating with Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Television is providing live coverage of the spacewalk at http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv [1] https://plus.google.com/+NASA/posts/YJ1i1L2nvY8 https://plus.google.com/+NASA/posts/YJ1i1L2nvY8