Subject: Mirnews.277 by Chris vd Berg (forwarded)
From: Gert-Jan Bartelds <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 19:41:33 EDT

Here's the next one - about today's EVA.     Gert-Jan ([email-masked])
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>From:    Chris Vandenberg                       
To:      All                                    Msg #417, 21-Oct-95 00:07:50
Subject: MIRNEWS.277

MIRNEWS.277              20.10.1995

                        MOLODTSY!!!

1ste Spacewalk (EVA) 20th Main Exp. to MIR and Euromir95:

'Molodtsy' means 'well done' and the cosmonauts deserve this compliment
after the successful EVA made by Avdeyev and Reiter today. They accomplish
all tasks without problems and fully according to schedule. Long before
they opened the exit-hatch of the airlock of Module-D they were busy with
preparations. In that period the traffic was relayed by the
trackingstations in the East of Siberia. The cosmonauts opened the
exit-hatch at 1155UTC and closed this after their return into the airlock
at 1706UTC. So a duration of 5 hours 11 minutes.  During all passes they
used the geo-sat Altair for communications. Only phone, so no images.
Images made by Gidzenko from inside the complex and by Reiter have been
sent to earth in a session after the EVA. The images were very good: for
instance Reiter sitting in the Strela girder during his transfer to the
outersurface of the Spektr module. Avdeyev was at the base of that crane to
control the transfer. Some interesting close-ups showed Reiter while he was
installing cassettes with experiments on some platforms of Spektr. Often
good images of the earth and parts of the enormous complex could be seen.
After the EVA Avdeyev and Reiter were shown while they left the airlock
Sh.S.O. and entered the P.N.O. (Instrument and scientific compartment). The
cooperation of the cosmonauts was very good and can be a model for the
future spacestation Alpha. During the EVA Reiter also gave a short address
in english dedicated to this mission and the positive results of the
meeting of ESA ministers in Toulouse.

The future: During this expedition we can expect 2 more EVA's: 1 done by
the Russians and an extra one by Reiter and a Russian. Reiter's 2d EVA is
possible due to the extension of this expedition annex Euromir95. The 20st
Main Expedition and Euromir95 will return to earth on 29.02.1996.

Coorection on MIRNEWS.276: Avdeyev made his 4 EVA's during his flight in
1992/93.

--- Maximus 2.01
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