Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos to make six-hour space walk

epa05916951 Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency 'Roscosmos', one of the crew members of the Expedition 51/52 to the International Space Station (ISS), waves near the rocket prior to the launch of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 20 April 2017. The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft brings Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and US Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into orbit for their four and a half months' mission on the International Space Station (ISS). EPA/KIRIL KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL

Russian cosmonaut of Pontic-Greek descent Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos will make a six-hour walk outside the ISS space station where he has been since April.

NASA TV will broadcast live the cosmonaut's trip. The broadcast is schedule to start at 17:00 (Athens time) on Thursday 17 August. He will be accompanied by a younger Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky.

Yurchikhin was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal, the Order of Friendship medal (2003), the Order of the Phoenix (Greece), the NASA Space Flight Medal (2003), medals of the Federation of Cosmonautics and the title of Russian Federation Test-Cosmonaut (2003).

Yurchikhin was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

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