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ISS Crew Completes Spacewalk

Expedition 25 Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin works outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV
by Staff Writers
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2010
Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka ended Monday's spacewalk at 4:22 p.m. EST. The excursion lasted six hours and 27 minutes.

The primary assembly and maintenance objectives of the spacewalk were to install a multipurpose workstation on the starboard side of the Zvezda service module's large-diameter section and relocate a television camera from one end of the Rassvet docking compartment to the other.

Research objectives included cleaning and removing a robotics experiment known as Kontur, short for Development of a System of Supervisory Control Over the Internet of the Robotic Manipulator in the Russian Segment of ISS, from the port side of Zvezda into the Pirs airlock; installing a new materials experiment on a handrail on the Rassvet module, and collecting samples from underneath insulation on the exterior of Zvezda and Pirs.

Skripochka and Yurchikhin completed all the tasks except the relocation of the television camera due to interference with insulation where it was to be installed.



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Space Station Spacewalk Under Russian Program Planned For Today
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 15, 2010
Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside one of the International Space Station's hatchways on Monday to perform a grab bag of spacewalking tasks that outfit the Russian segment for future assembly work and support external experiments. Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka, both Expedition 25 flight engineers, will wear Orlan-MK spacesuits and emerge from the Earth-facing Pirs docking co ... read more







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