2002
Report # 3
10 p.m. CST, Monday, Jan. 14, 2002
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineer Carl Walz floated outside the
International Space Station on the first spacewalk of their expedition and
finished installing a second Russian cargo boom, part of which had been
delivered to the station two and a
half years ago. With coordination help from inside the station by Flight
Engineer Dan Bursch, the two space walkers also installed an amateur radio
antenna on the Zvezda Service Module.
The first space walk Expedition Four crew's five-month tour of duty began at
2:59 p.m. CST and ended at 9:02 p.m. CST, lasting a total of 6 hours, 3
minutes. Monday's spacewalk was the thirty-second in support of space
station assembly, the seventh such excur
sion conducted from the station itself, and the sixth based out of the
station's Russian segment. The total amount of time spent on space
station-based spacewalks now stands at 29 hours, 04 minutes, and the total
spacewalking time spent on station constructio
n at 196 hours, 19 minutes.
After exiting the station from the Russian Pirs docking compartment,
Onufrienko and Walz assembled an extension for a Russian cargo boom that had
been previously installed on Pirs. They used the operational cargo crane,
called Strela 1 (Strela is the Russian
word for arrow), to get into position to detach and relocate a similar crane
temporarily stored on the outside of the Unity-to-Zarya connecting tunnel.
Known as Strela 2, this second crane was moved back alongside Pirs and
attached to a base point on the oppo
site side of the docking compartment and airlock at 6:31 p.m. CST.
The first piece of Strela 2 had been delivered and installed in May 1999,
and the second piece in May 2000. On future spacewalks, the two cranes may
be used to maneuver equipment and spacewalkers.
Onufrienko and Walz also installed an amateur radio antenna on a handrail at
the end of the Zvezda service module. The antenna is one of four that
eventually will allow space station crew members to make "ham"
radio contacts from the comfort of thei
r living quarters inside Zvezda. Currently, the amateur radio station is
inside the Zarya module.
The next spacewalk of the expedition - to be conducted by Onufrienko and
Bursch - is targeted for Jan. 25. The plan for this spacewalk currently
includes installation of the remaining three amateur radio antennae and
thruster deflector shields on the end of Z
vezda.
For the latest information on the crew's activities aboard the space
station, future launch dates and times, as well as station sighting
opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, please visit the Web at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov. Details on station science
operations can be found on the Web site of the Payload Operations Center at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. at:
http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov.
The next ISS status report will be issued Jan. 18.
NASA Johnson Space Center Shuttle Mission/Space Station Status Reports and
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