January 26, 2005.
Korolev, Moscow area.
The Expedition Crew 10 (ISS-10) of the International
Space Station (ISS) performed the first egress into space
out of EVAs scheduled for this increment.
The crew commander,
Leroy Chiao, NASA astronaut and flight engineer, Salizhan
Sharipov, Russian Cosmonaut left the Orbital Complex through
the egress hatch of the Pirs compartment-module of the
Russian Segment, that was open at 10:42 Moscow time.
Upon
successful completion of the scheduled EVA program activities
that took about 5.5 hours, the crew came back to Pirs module,
having closed the egress hatch at 16:11.
The crew installed
the universal work platform (URM-D) structure on the external
surface of the Russian Service module Zvezda designed for
simultaneous accommodation and operation of up to three
external payloads of 150 kg each, and placed Rokviss hardware
thereon (Contract activity with DLR, German Space Agency),
inspected and made pictures of the nozzle gas flow outlet
of Electron, Vosdukh systems and trace contaminant removal
system of the manned pressurized compartments. At the same
time Biorisk-MSN hardware was installed externally on Pirs
module, MPAC&SEED experiment
hardware panels were transferred and assembled (experiment
performed by the Russian party by request of the Japanese
National Space Agency and designed for investigation of
space environment effects on the Japanese Experimental
Module material and coating samples in the ISS operating
orbit).
The data exchange between the ISS and Mission Control
Center in Moscow (MCC-M) was performed in the Russian ground
site coverage. Outside this coverage the data was exchanged
through the U.S. facilities.
According to the crew and
LOCT providing control and monitoring of the Russian Segment
flight reports the crew feels well, and the ISS onboard
systems operate normally.
The ISS on-orbit complex consists
of Functional Cargo Module Zarya, Service Module Zvezda,
docking compartment-module Pirs, transport spacecraft Soyuz-TMA-5
and Progress M-51, modules Unity and Destiny, airlock Kvest,
multi-link truss structure with deployed solar arrays.
One more egress into space in the frame of the flight program
is scheduled for the ISS–10 crew this March.
The progress
of EVA operations was observed by managers and specialists
of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Roskosmos, DLR, Yu. Gagarin
CTC RGNII and other companies and industry organizations
supporting EVA program implementation, which were present
at MCC-M.
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