Subject: MIRNEWS.296 2 APRIL 1996 From: Chris Vandenberg
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 96 10:38:30 EST

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MIRNEWS.296      2 APRIL 1996

American EVA outside MIR:

The EVA made by Clifford and Godwin on 27.03.96 lasted 6 hrs and 2 mins. The
MIR crew experienced this EVA passively: their involvment consisted of
observating and filming the event
through some portholes. It was not easy to cover all activi ties of the
American astronauts fully. They could see a part of the EVA through a=
 porthole
in de airlock of Module-D. The best view they got was through the porthole=
 of
the cabin of the boardengineer in the Base Block. During the EVA the commu
nications went via American channels. On the EVA frequency
279.000 mc Clifford and Godwin could be heard now and then. The same
transmissions could be heard via the CNN relay from a TDRS. The Americans
installed the experiments on the outersur face of the Docking Compartment at
the Kristall-module. (The Russians speak about the 'SO'. The 'O' stands for
Otsek, which means 'compartment'. So the do not speak about 'module'.) =20

Atlantis-MIR-combination: During the period in which Atlantis and MIR were
linked together many activities took place during the night in our area. We
were lucky that this was not so
during the EVA, which took place during our morning hours. The operations
during the precursor flights cast a gloom over the future. It becomes=
 obvious
who will be in command during the flight of the International Space Station:
undoubtedly this will be the Americans. Immediately after the docking the
Americans took over the attitude control of the whole complex,and most of=
 the
communications and the control of the operati ons were theirs.  =20

Undocking of Atlantis. This took place on 29.03.96 at 0108UTC. After the
undocking Atlantis made a flight around the MIR
complex and moved away at abt 1 hour later. Onufriyenko could be heard on=
 the
MIR-frequencies 130.625 and 143.625mc speaking about the attitude=
 (movements-)
control of the MIR station
which was now under full control of FCC Kalingrad again.
(TsUP-M). The transmissions of the images from MIR about the Atlantis were
relayed by trackingstations inside Russian
territory.=20

MIR: The passes of MIR for our area take place during the
night hours and so there is not much to report about the life on board.=20

Module Priroda: The launch of this module has been put back again. Latest
available planned launch date: 23.04.1996.=20

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202=20

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