Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
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Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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NASA TV TO BROADCAST SPACE STATION SPACEWALK FEB. 16
HOUSTON -- Two cosmonauts will conduct a five-and-a-half-hour
spacewalk Thursday, Feb. 16, to continue outfitting the International
Space Station. NASA Television will broadcast the spacewalk beginning
at 7:45 a.m. CST.
Expedition 30 Russian Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Anton
Shkaplerov will move one of the two Strela cranes from Pirs, the
oldest Russian airlock and docking module, to the newer Poisk docking
module. The 46-foot boom will be used for future assembly and
maintenance work. The duo also will install five debris shields on
the Zvezda service module and, if time permits, a small experiment on
the forward section of the module, an experiment sample pack on Poisk
and support struts on the Pirs ladder.
Both spacewalkers will wear Russian Orlan suits bearing blue stripes
and equipped with NASA helmet cameras. They will emerge from the Pirs
airlock at about 8:15 a.m.
This spacewalk will be the 162nd in support of space station assembly
and maintenance. The last spacewalk occurred Aug. 3, 2011. For
Kononenko, it will be his third spacewalk following two in July 2008
during Expedition 17. His two previous spacewalks lasted a total of
12 hours and 12 minutes. It will be Shkaplerov's first spacewalk and
the only one scheduled during Expedition 30.
Because of the location of the activities, Expedition 30 Commander Dan
Burbank of NASA and Russian Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin will be
isolated in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft, which is attached to the
Poisk module, for the duration of the spacewalk. NASA Flight Engineer
Don Pettit of NASA and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre
Kuipers will be free to move about the U.S. segment of the complex.
Their Soyuz TMA-03M is attached to the Rassvet module.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:
For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:
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