{"id":6065,"date":"2026-05-28T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:46:13","slug":"russian-cosmonaut-sends-message-to-mother-during-spacewalk-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/russian-cosmonaut-sends-message-to-mother-during-spacewalk-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian cosmonaut sends message to mother during spacewalk (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISS commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov was conducting scheduled maintenance on the station hull when his remarks were caught in transmission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, on his first spacewalk of 2026 on the International Space Station (ISS), sent a message to his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Current ISS commander Kud-Sverchkov and his fellow cosmonaut Sergey Mikayev were performing scheduled installation and removal of scientific experiment hardware on the outer hull of the space station on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A stream of the spacewalk, broadcast by Russian space corporation Roscosmos, shows Kud-Sverchkov holding up a laminated piece of paper with the words <em>\u201cMom, I\u2019m wearing my hat\u201d<\/em> printed in Russian.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of more than six hours, the cosmonauts installed new hardware to observe the Sun in the previously unexplored terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and retrieved a slide from an experiment attempting to grow ultra-pure semiconductors in space.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a11163c2030270d082cebfe.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640457-spacex-starship-test-flight\/\">WATCH SpaceX Starship explode on splashdown \u2018as expected\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They also uninstalled a container used to test whether bacteria, fungi, and plant seeds could survive five years exposed to vacuum, cosmic radiation, and temperature fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p>Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev were launched to the ISS alongside NASA astronaut Chris Williams aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-28 in last November. Kud-Sverchkov then took over command of the ISS Expedition 74 from NASA astronaut Mike Fincke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISS commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov was conducting scheduled maintenance on the station hull when his remarks were caught in transmission Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}