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Posted by Jacques van Oene on August 19, 2005, 5:12 am
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Station Crew Wraps Up Spacewalk
Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John
Phillips closed the airlock hatch of the Pirs docking compartment at 8 p.m.
EDT Thursday, ending a successful spacewalk on the International Space
Station.
Wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, both with red stripes, the two had opened
the Pirs hatch at 3:02 p.m. EDT. Total time for the spacewalk was 4 hours
and 58 minutes. It was the eighth spacewalk for Krikalev, designated EV1,
and the first for Phillips, EV2.
The first task was to remove a Russian Biorisk experiment container housing
bacteria from the outside of Pirs.
Next they removed an MPAC and SEED panel from the large-diameter aft section
of the Zvezda Service Module. MPAC is a micrometeoroid and orbital debris
collector. SEED is a materials exposure array.
Crewmembers then moved to the Matroska experiment, a torso-like container
with radiation dosimeters in human-tissue-equivalent material. They removed
it and later, with the MPAC and SEED panel, brought it back inside the
Station.
Krikalev and Phillips installed a spare television camera on Zvezda, then
photographed and checked a Korma contamination-exposure experiment tablet on
a handrail. That done, they removed a materials exposure experiment
container and replaced it with a similar unit.
One task was deferred because of the length of the spacewalk. That was to
remove a grapple fixture for a Strela crane from the Zarya module and
relocate it on Pressurized Mating Adaptor No. 3, attached to the Station's
Unity node. That job will be done on a future spacewalk.
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Jacques :-)
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