Subject: Mirnews.310 & holiday
From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:09:14 +0100

>Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:08:08 +0100
>To: [email-masked]
>From: "Hans G. Janssen" <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Mirnews.310 & holiday
>
>Hallo Jonathan, For the next three weeks I will be on holiday. So you may
miss some Mirnew's bulletins from Chris. After that I'll send you his
production ASAP. Hans G. <
>
  MIRNEWS.310              13 JUNE 1996
  
  6th Spacewalk (EVA) MIR-crew:
  
  This EVA began earlier than planned on 13.06.96 at
  1245UTC (opening of the hatch) and lasted until 1827UTC
  (closing of the hatch). They had to accomplish some very
  strenuous tasks: the installation and deployment of the
  Ferma-3 girder construction at the outersurface of the
  Kvant-1 module and the repair of the Travers-antenna (the
  huge SAR antenna on the module Priroda). They deployed
  the 4 sections of the Ferma-structure until the desired
  length of 5 meters. The Travers radio locator antenne had
  not been fully deployed by commands from inside the
  module Priroda and so Onufriyenko and Usachov completed
  this manually during their EVA. The Travers is now
  operational. After this work they made  made their way
  back to the airlock of Module-D. This was not easy and
  went slowly. (It is the last straw that can brake the
  camel's back). Back on board the cosmonauts quickly
  recovered and expressed their satisfaction about the
  accomplished tasks but also about the assistance they got
  from Shannon Lucid being on command inside the complex.
  She had been busy with camerawork and used all available
  films and cassettes. TsUP also thanked her for her work
  during the EVA. 
  This has been the last EVA planned for this crew. The
  next EVA has to be made by the next crew in September
  this year. 
  
  Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202