Subject: Mir news
From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:33:06 +0100

Thanks Jonathan for sending Space.284, which we missed.

Hereby latest Mirnews, but I'm not sure I've send you 303 too!

MIRNEWS.304         17 MAY 1996

2d Spacewalk (EVA) crew MIR's 21 Main Expedition:

This EVA will be the 1st of a series of 3, still to be done by
this crew. 
The EVA will begin on 20.05.1996 at 2255UTC (opening of the
hatch) and end on 21.05.1996 at abt. 0400UTC (closing of the
hatch). During this EVA a solarpanel will be transferred from
the Docking Compartment, DC, to the astrophysical module
Kvant-1 (Module-E). This solarpanel had been delivered toge
ther with that DC by Atlantis in November 1995. 
The cosmonauts Onufriyenko and Usachov will transport themsel
ves and the solarpanel using the 2d Strela girder, which they
installed on Kvant-1 during their first EVA on 15.05.96. 
The solarpanel is folded up and will only be installed on
Kvant-1. The deployment and tests will take place during the
next EVA.
During passes in which the EVA might still be going on EVA-
traffic can be monitored on 143.618 and 130.165 mc. (21.05.96
from 0340-0349UTC and possibly during pressure egalisation of
the airlock between 0515-0525UTC).

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