Keep the shuttle flying: Fwd: ISS Russian crewmembers go on EVA

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Date: June 24, 2013 11:41:05 AM GMT-06:00
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Today, Russian cosmonauts will conduct work in open space
24.06.2013 ::

     In accordance with the work schedule on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on June 24 at 17 hours 35 minutes Moscow time Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will work in open space. Exit the station is planned through the exit hatch docking module (SO-1) "Pirs".
        The main objectives of the output are:
replacement of a replacement panel number 2 fluid flow regulator on the Functional Cargo Block "Dawn";
Installation of cable holders and the holders of power supply systems, power supply rails;
installation of scientific equipment "indicator" of the space experiment "Control" on the Mini Research Module "Search";
installation of five soft grips to move the crews on the service module "Zvezda";
the dismantling of of scientific equipment «Foton-Gamma" with the universal working place of working compartment of the service module «Star of»;
carrying out of the dough hardware-assisted «Kurs".
     If time permits, it is decided to perform additional operations to dismantle the panel number 2 CE "Endurance" with MRM2.
     Astronauts will spend on the outer surface of the ISS more than 6 hours.
     For Alexander Misurkin's first spacewalk, and for Fedor Yurchikhin - sixth.

     Live television exit Russian cosmonauts into space is on the web-sites of Roscosmos and PCO TsNIIMash .

Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency

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June 24, 2013 17:40
ISS Russian crewmembers go on spacewalk
KOROLYOV, Moscow region. June 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian astronauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin have opened the hatch of the International Space Station (ISS) Pirs module's airlock chamber and gone on a spacewalk, an Interfax-AVN correspondent reports from the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolyov.
"The spacewalk has begun," the Center told Interfax-AVN.
Yurchikhin, who has been on five spacewalks with the total duration of 32 hours, is wearing the commander spacesuit with red strips on the sides. Misurkin, who is making his first spacewalk, is wearing the engineer spacesuit with blue strips on the sides.
The astronauts will replace panel No 2 in the liquid flow regulator of the Zarya functional and cargo module and install racks for power cables and the Indicator equipment for the Control experiment on the Poisk small research module.
They will also dismantle the Vynoslivost experiment panel from the exterior of the Poisk module. The panel was supposed to stay on the Poisk exterior for another year but Russian astronaut Pavel Vinogradov dropped a panel installed earlier during his spacewalk in April and researchers asked to deliver this one.
The Vynoslivost experiment studies the influence of space factors on deformation, durability and fatigue of burdened and non-burdened samples. The experiment samples and equipment weigh eleven kilograms.
The astronauts will install five soft handles for facilitating the movement of crews on the exterior of the Zvezda service module, dismantle the scientific equipment of Photon-Gamma from the universal work place on the Zvezda module and test the Kurs equipment.
Numerous spacewalks have been planned from the ISS for the next few months. U.S. astronaut Christopher Cassidy and European astronaut Luca Parmitano will go on spacewalks on July 9 and 16. Misurkin and Yurchikhin will go on spacewalks again on August 15 and 21.
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14:16 24/06/2013

Technology of spacewalk with Olympic torch mastered
STAR CITY (Moscow region), June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky said on Monday that the technology of carrying the Olympic torch on a spacewalk is already mastered.
The cosmonaut spoke after the signing of a treaty between the Federal Space Agency and the Sochi Olympic Games Organizing Committee.
The crew of Ryazansky and Oleg Kotov, who will make a spacewalk with the torch, will get back to Earth in March 2014. "We will be watching the Olympic Games on computer screen," Ryazansky said. "We have no possibility to watch competitions live, so we will watch them recorded," he added.
He also said that his favorite winter kinds of sports are skiing, biathlon and hockey.
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Two Russian cosmonauts to carry Olympic torch on spacewalk
STAR CITY (Moscow region), June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Roskosmos Federal Space Agency has become an honored partner of the Olympic torch relay. An agreement on that was signed by president of the Sochi Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko and Roskosmos head Vladimir Popovkin.
Under the agreement, Roskosmos will organize the delivery of Olympic torch to the International Space Station and into the open space. This will be the first ever spacewalk with the Olympic torch. Early in November 2013 one of the main symbols of the Olympic Games will travel to the ISS on board the Soyuz TMA-11M piloted craft. It will be launched by a Soyuz carrier, on which the symbols of the 2014 Olympic Games will be painted.
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryazansky and Oleg Kotov will carry the torch on a spacewalk. The cosmonauts are already training at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre. The torch will not be lit for safety considerations. Commander Mikhail Tyurin has been honored to hand the Olympic torch out to the crew. Cosmonaut Fedor Yurchikhin, who is on board the ISS at the moment, will return the torch back to Earth.
"Nobody has ever done it before," Chernyshenko stressed. "Russian cosmonaut's spacewalk with the Sochi torch will make it into the history of the Olympic Games," he stressed.
Popovkin said the sending of the torch into the open space is an unprecedented event in the history of the Olympic movement and in the history or world cosmonautics. "Its delivery into orbit by Russian cosmonauts will become a new bright page of space chronicles," Popovkin emphasized.
Sergei Ryazansky said that the technology of carrying the Olympic torch on a spacewalk is already mastered.

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Realtime coverage of Russian EVA-33
06/24/2013 10:15 AM
By WILLIAM HARWOOD
CBS News

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin ventured outside the International Space Station Monday, kicking off a planned six-hour spacewalk to carry out a variety of maintenance tasks, including preparations for attachment of a new Russian laboratory module late this year.

The spacewalk began at 9:32 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) when Yurchikhin, call sign EV-1, and Misurkin, EV-2, opened the hatch of the Pirs airlock compartment as the station sailed 250 miles above the south Pacific Ocean. Misurkin made his way outside a few moments later, followed by Yurchikhin.

For identification, Yurchikhin is wearing a Russian spacesuit with red stripes while Misurkin is using a suit with blue stripes. Both cosmonauts are equipped with NASA helmet cameras.
Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin heads toward the Zarya module, right, where he and Fyodor Yurchikhin planned to install a cooling system flow control valve. (Credit: NASA TV)

This is the 169th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998, the third so far this year, the sixth for Yurchikhin and the first for Misurkin. Four more Russian spacewalks are planned for 2013, along with two U.S. excursions July 2 and 9.

Along with routine maintenance, much of the work planned for today's spacewalk includes installation of cable clamps and other equipment needed to route data and power to and from the Multi-Purpose Laboratory module, also known as Nauka, tentatively scheduled for launch in December.

To make way for the new module, the Pirs docking and airlock compartment will be jettisoned this Fall and the MLM will use its own propulsion and guidance system to fly to an automated docking at the Zvezda command module's Earth-facing port.

But first, Russian spacewalkers must route power and data lines on Zvezda's hull and remove docking equipment from Pirs. Much of that gear will be moved to the Poisk docking compartment currently attached to Zvezda's upper port. It will take another three Russian spacewalks and two by NASA astronauts to complete the preparations.

"There are quite a (few) tasks that need to be performed by the Russian EVA crew members before MLM arrives," said Lawrence Thomas, NASA's lead spacewalk planner for Expedition 36. "Not only do they need to route power and data cables and reconfigure (rendezvous) equipment for the arrival of the MLM itself, it's part of a larger reconfiguration effort."

Because the MLM will replace the Pirs module, which serves as the Russian airlock, the Poisk module must be configured to handle spacewalks.

"So there is a lot of hardware we're going to have to move around," Thomas said. "There's EVA hardware on (Pirs) that will have to be removed and re-installed on (Poisk), there are some antennas that will have to be moved around and there's also some science equipment on (Pirs) that's going to have to be relocated before it deorbits."

For today's excursion, Yurchikhin and Misurkin planned to begin by replacing a cooling system flow control valve on the Zarya module and installing additional power and data clamps needed for the MLM.

On the Zvezda module, the spacewalkers will reconfigure KURS docking gear, used by approaching Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to home in for docking at Pirs, and install spacewalk handrails needed during upcoming EVAs. They also plan to retrieve a materials science space exposure pallet from Poisk and install a new experiment.

"The tasks for this EVA in particular, there's not one that's particularly hard in comparison to other things we've done," Thomas said. "One thing that I've always admired about Russian EVA hardware, they always design it to where it's very user friendly, very simple interfaces, very intuitive. So I don't see anything on this that's more complicated (than usual).

"If I was to pick anything out to watch out for on these EVAs it's just the amount of ground they're going to cover and also the amount of hardware they're going to manipulate."

Misurkin, making his first spaceflight, arrived at the space station March 28, along with Soyuz TMA-08M commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy. Yurchikhin arrived May 28 aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft, accompanied by NASA shuttle veteran Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano, a European Space Agency astronaut.

Yurchikhin first flew to the space station in 2002 as a shuttle astronaut on a mission to attach part of the lab's solar power truss. He then completed two long-duration stays, riding aloft aboard Soyuz spacecraft in 2007 and 2010.

He has logged nearly 400 days in space, including five previous spacewalks totaling about 32 hours. When Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy depart in September, Yurchikhin will take over as commander of Expedition 37.

As a routine safety precaution during today's spacewalk, the Zvezda module's hatches to Poisk and the forward part of the station were sealed to protect against the possibility of a problem repressurizing Pirs after the spacewalk.

Nyberg and Parmitano spent the day in the forward portion of the space station, where they had access to the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft docked at the Rassvet compartment attached to the Russian Zarya module.

Cassidy and Vinogradov spent the day in the Poisk docking compartment on the upper side the Zvezda module where the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft is docked.
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Jun. 24, 2013 10:15 AM   |
Cosmonauts spacewalk outside ISS
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin outside the International Space Station. The view comes from the helmet camera of spacewalking colleague Fyodor Yurchikhin. / NASA TV
Written by
Todd Halvorson
FLORIDA TODAY
CAPE CANAVERAL – Two Russian cosmonauts are spacewalking outside the International Space Station today, performing test and maintenance work outside the outpost.
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin aim to test an automatic Russian docking system used during the arrival and departure of Progress resupply ships.

The two also plan to:

•Retrieve a science experiment that measures different types of radiation emitted during thunder and lightning in Earth's atmosphere.

•Photograph multi-layer insulation that protects the pressure hull of the Russian side of the station from micrometeorites and orbital debris.

•Collect samples from the surface of the pressure hull. The samples will be tested to determine whether the hull is deteriorating.

•Replace a fluid flow regulator on the station's Zarya module, the first element to be launched as part of outpost assembly, which began in 1998.

The six-hour excursion is the sixth spacewalk for Yutchikhin, the first for Misurkin. It is the first of three planned in the next month at the outpost. U.S. and European astronauts will perform maintenance work outside the station on July 9 and July 16.
Contact Halvorson at thalvorson@floridatoday.com

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Russian Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk Outside Space Station
by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com Staff Writer
24 June 2013 Time: 09:22 AM ET

Two Russian spacewalkers exited the International Space Station on June 24, 2013 (EDT) for a spacewalk. One of them is seen at upper right. During the spacewalk, Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will replace a fluid flow control valve panel on the Zarya module, test Kurs automated docking cables for the arrival of a new Russian laboratory module later this year and install clamps to later hold cables bringing power from the U.S. segment of the station to that new Russian module.
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Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station today (June 24) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to test and upgrade systems on the orbiting lab's exterior.
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and his crewmate Alexander Misurkin floated outside to begin their work at 9:32 a.m. EDT (1332 GMT). This is the sixth career spacewalk for Yurchikhin and Misurkin's first. So far, Yurchikhin has logged 31 hours and 52 minutes of spacewalk time.
You can watch the spacewalk live on SPACE.com courtesy of NASA TV now. Misurkin is in the blue striped suit and Yurchikhin is in red.
"I'm excellent," Misurkin said as Yurchikhin joined him outside of the space station. "I'm ready to press on."
Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will spend six hours working outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk on June 24, 2013.
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The cosmonauts are expected to test automatic docking cables in anticipation of a new Russian module scheduled to arrive at the station later this year. Misurkin and Yurchikhin also plan to install clamps that will hold cables from the station's U.S. side that will power the new module on the Russian portion of the laboratory.
They will also install handholds to aid in future spacewalks, retrieve experiments from the outside of the station and "replace a fluid flow control valve panel on the Zarya module," NASA officials said in a statement.
This is the first spacewalk since two NASA astronauts performed an unplanned emergency excursion to fix an ammonia leak on the outside of the space station in May. The spacewalk by Misurkin and Yurchikhin will mark the 169th in support of station care and construction.
The two cosmonauts are living and working on the space station along with NASA's Karen Nyberg and Chris Cassidy, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russia's Pavel Vinogradov.
The orbiting laboratory is about the size of a five bedroom house with the wingspan of a football field. The $100 billion International Space Station was built by five space agencies representing 15 countries. Construction began in 1998 and has been staffed with rotating crews of astronauts continuously since 2000.

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