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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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