It was the fourth spacewalk in less than a month for the station crew
International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin performed a spacewalk yesterday (Thursday) that lasted 6 hours and 18 minutes.
During the spacewalk, they folded an antenna stuck on the outside of an unmanned cargo spacecraft of the Progert model into the opening known as APT in the Zavzda service component. The antenna did not fully fold before the spacecraft docked with the station on October 26, 2006.
The two also tested the navigation systems in preparation for the docking of a European cargo spaceship that currently has a simple name - Automated Transfer Vehicle.
This is the fourth spacewalk since the end of January, and the fifth overall for both Lopez-Alegria and Tiorin - a record for a single crew member of the station.
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A question for Avi Bilovski The Rosetta spacecraft is expected to pass by Mars in an hour and a quarter
Hello.
First, no one else does it.
Secondly, it is also about documentation - I also thought it was routine and as a result I have almost no documentation on the website of previous flights that ended safely except for a random piece of information here and there (they replaced a camera in Hubble). The disaster proved that nothing is trivial.
Third - there aren't that many manned missions in space.
Fourth - the website's current technology has many advantages but also one drawback - if I want to put something in a side archive I have to change its date to a retroactive date. Mila when it comes to in-depth articles that less than a month more than a month does not change, when it comes to an event that happened today this is a problem.
Besides, there were 4 updates yesterday compared to the average of 3, so take this update as a bonus, not at the expense of other things.
Avi Shalom.
In my opinion, all the news about astronauts in space already goes beyond the scope of science and it is better to downplay the articles on the subject or at least put them in a side archive.