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Total EVAs: | 2 | ||
Total EVA time: | 11h 05m |
No. | Date | Together with | Time | Main tasks and notes |
1 | 07.11.2005 | W. McArthur | 5h 22m |
Installing a camera on the port side of the
station's horizontal truss structure and removing an old experiment from the
solar array truss on top of the facility |
2 | 03.02.2006 | W. McArthur | 5h 43m |
Installing a safing bolt to prevent the
inadvertent firing of an electro-mechanical cable cutter on a mobile
transporter used to move the station's big robot arm to different work sites;
deployed SuitSat, an old Russian spacesuit with an amateur radio
transmitter |
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. |