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Total EVAs: | 2 | ||
Total EVA time: | 10h 14m |
No. | Date | Together with | Time | Main tasks and notes |
1 | 21.01.2011 | O. Skripochka | 5h 23m |
Completing installation of a new high-speed data
transmission system, removing an old plasma pulse experiment, installing a
camera for the new Rassvet docking module and retrieving a materials exposure
package. |
2 | 16.02.2011 | O. Skripochka | 4h 51m |
Installing two experiments. They also retrieved
a pair of panels exposed to space as part of an experiment to identify the best
materials for building long-duration spacecraft. The cosmonauts also deployed
an experiment called ARISSat-1, or Radioskaf-V, a boxy 57-pound nanosatellite
that houses congratulatory messages commemorating the 50th anniversary of Yuri
Gagarin's launch to become the first human in space. |
Russia and the U.S. define
EVA
differently. Russian cosmonauts are said to perform
EVA
any time they are in vacuum in a space suit. A U.S. astronaut must have at
least his head outside his spacecraft before he is said to perform an
EVA. |