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January 15, 2002. Korolev, Moscow area.

International Space Station expedition crew ISS-4 has performed an EVA.
The objective of the EVA was to install a second cargo boom on the Russian Docking Compartment, Pirs module, as well as to install a Ham Radio antenna on the propulsion section of Service Module Zvezda.
This cargo boom, just as the first cargo boom installed on the Pirs module earlier, is designed to support the space station crew extravehicular activities. The boom structural components were delivered to ISS on-board Shuttle Orbiters and were temporarily stowed on the outer surface of transfer adapter PMA-1 of US module Unity.
The exit hatch on Docking Compartment Pirs was opened on January 14, 2002, at 23:59, Moscow Time.
The work in open space was performed by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko (expedition commander) and US astronaut Carl Walz (flight engineer). US astronaut Daniel Bursch (flight engineer) stayed inside the space station and was checking the progress of work against the on-board documentation.
Yuri Onufrienko and Carl Walz, using the first cargo boom installed on the ISS Russian Segment earlier, transferred from Pirs module to PMA-1 adapter on Unity module, performed al the operations necessary to remove restraints and transfer the structure of the second cargo boom to the installation area, after which they secured it to its base support located on the outer surface of Pirs module. After that they transferred to the propulsion section of Sevice Module Zvezda delivering a Ham radio antenna to its attachment point, installed this antenna on a handrail, and, having mated its connectors, returned to Pirs module together with equipment and tools that supported their operations in space.
The hatch closure took place at 06:02 Moscow Time. The activities in open space lasted 6 hours 03 minutes.
The progress of the work was recorded on video by the crew and by the on-board equipment.
This was the first EVA performed by ISS-4 expedition crew.
According to reports from the crew and LOCT that performed the space station monitoring and controlling from Mission Control Center near Moscow (Flight Director - cosmonaut V.A.Soloviev), the crew state of health is good and all the ISS on-board systems operate within their design limits.
Present at the Mission Control Center throughout EVA operations were specialists from RSC Energia and its subcontractors.

 

 

 

 

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