Crew Gears Up For Spacewalk On Wednesday

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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin works with a sleeve of a Russian Orlan spacesuit in the Pirs Docking Compartment. Credit: NASA

by Staff Writers
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 21, 2006
Expedition 14 crew members will exit the International Space Station on Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. EST. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin will retrieve equipment, manually retract an antenna and photograph a docking port on the Zvezda service module. Tyurin will also hit a golf ball from the station's Pirs docking compartment. The golf swing is part of a Russian commercial activity.

The crew is reviewing the spacewalk timeline and paying special attention to a recently added task. The spacewalkers will manually retract a Kurs antenna on the Progress cargo vehicle that docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module on Oct. 26. Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter will remain inside the orbiting outpost while Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin go about their mission's first spacewalk.

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ISS Crew Getting Ready For Golf Day

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 19, 2006
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Thomas Reiter continue to prepare for a spacewalk Wednesday, Nov. 22, out of the International Space Station's Russian Pirs Docking Compartment airlock. Lopez-Alegria, who will make his sixth spacewalk, and Tyurin, with three previous spacewalks to his credit, climbed into Russian Orlan spacesuits Friday to test all systems and communications gear.

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