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November 13, 2001. Korolev, Moscow area.
A extravehicular activity from Russian module Pier of the
International Space Station has been performed at 0:41 -
5:46, Moscow time.
The purpose of this EVA was to connect cables of the automatic
rendezvous and docking system Kurs between Russian modules
Pier and Zvezda,as well as to complete functionality checks
of the cargo boom, mounted on the Pier module. These operations
have been performed by American astronaut F. Culbertson
(ISS-3 commander) and Russian cosmonaut V. Dezhurov (pilot,
Soyuz TM commander). During this EVA the examination and
photographing of the unfolded section of solar array of
the module Zvezda has also been conducted.
Flight engineer of ISS-3 main crew M. Tyurin (flight engineer
- RSC Energia Research Cosmonaut) supervised the EVA operations
from inside the Station and controlled them using the onboard
documentation.
After the completion of EVA the Station's systems were reset
to initial state.
According to the reports of the crew and the Lead Operational
Control Team (LOCT), which performs operation and control
of the Station's flight from the Mission Control Center
near Moscow (MCC-M), the crew feels well, the state of the
onboard systems of the Station corresponds to the design
mode.
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