Monday, June 24, 2013

Astronauts Jurchihin and Misurkin come out in open space - Russian Newspaper

Today Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin come out in open space, where they will remain six o’clock.

“exit hatch opening scheduled at 17.40 MSK Monday, ending the spacewalk is scheduled for 23.40 MSK on the same day,” – told RIA Novosti in Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC) TsNIIMash.

Astronauts perform a number of technical problems. Among them – the replacement of the second panel liquid flow controller on the module “Zarya” and dismantling of equipment “Photon-Gamma” experiment “Molniya-Gamma”.

also Jurchihin Misurkin and install handrails soft on the service module “Zvezda” and test equipment system of rendezvous and docking “Course.” They also establish the holder of cable systems in the energy functional cargo module “Zarya”.

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Yurchikhin it will be the sixth spacewalk, and for Misurkin – the first in the career.

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