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November 15-16, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M,
Korolev, Moscow region
In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS), Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka made a scheduled spacewalk.
Working within the framework of the Test experiment they took swab samples from the outer surface of Zvezda and Pirs modules for subsequent chemical, toxicological and microbiological analysis. On the outer surface of the Zvezda module cosmonauts installed a new multipurpose workstation, which is intended for accommodating scientific equipment in the future. They also dismantled and moved inside the space station the "Robotik" robotic arm, installed an additional soft handhold on the Pirs module, and a removable container with material samples on the Poisk module. Cosmonauts dismantled from the Rassvet module a TV camera, which had been used earlier during the module docking with ISS. While working, they took photographs called for in the spacewalk timeline sequence.
Preparations for and performance of the operations in open space were monitored from the Mission Control Center near Moscow by specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia and organizations involved in the implementation of the ISS program, with participation of the ISS crew.
For reference:
- That was the 26th scheduled space walk from the ISS RS. Altogether, there have been 32 space walks from the Russian Segment, including six unscheduled space walks. For O.Skripochka that space walk was his first, and for F.Yurchikhin his fifth.
- The egress hatch on the Pirs module was opened at 17:55, and closed at 00:23 Moscow Time on November 16. Cosmonauts stayed in the outer space for 6 hours 28 minutes.
- Working onboard ISS while the Russian cosmonauts were performing a spacewalk was the ISS-25 crew: Russian cosmonaut A.Kaleri and US astronauts D.Wheelock (crew commander), S.Walker and S.Kelly.
- The robotic arm Robotik was installed on Zvezda module 6 years ago and was used within the framework of experiments Kontur and Rokviss.
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