Subject: Mirnews 283 by Chris vd Berg (forwarded)
From: Gert-Jan Bartelds <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 95 16:41:05 EST

>From:    Chris Vandenberg                       Sent 
To:      All                                    Msg #164, 09-Dec-95 12:19:00
Subject: MIRNEWS.283

MIRNEWS.283        9 DECEMBER 1995

2nd Spacewalk (EVA) by MIR's ME 20 crew:

The Russian crew members of the 20th Main Expedition to MIR made a short
EVA on 8.12.1995. The hatch was opened at 1915UTC and closed at 1952UTC.
So a duration of 37 minutes. The docking-cone fixed on the port of the
-Z-axis (were Kristall is docked) has been moved to the only free
docking port of the Transition section (P.Kh.O.), +Z. So this port is now
ready for the eventual reception of the Priroda Module in March 1996.

Progress-M30: The launch of this freighter is still on schedule for
18.12.1995.

Rumors and question marks about the future:

The Russians flew a kite about the eventual use of the Modules Spektr and
Priroda for the International Space Station Alpha. They even suggested the
option to use the present MIR space station as the first 'agglutination
point' for Alfa. NASA is willing to listen to their Russian partners during
a meeting in Houston next week, but showed no enthusiasm thusfar. If
Priroda will be accepted as a part of the ISS Alpha a docking of that Module
with MIR in March 1996 would be unlikely. But for the time being we have to
wait and, of course, listen!

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202

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