Spacewalk: a forgotten tool

On 27 July, the Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko of the International Space Station’s Expedition 24 concluded a six-hour, 46 minute space walk wearing Russian Orlan space suits. During the spacewalk a tool floated away from the ISS. The cosmonauts identified this as a cable clamp on which they were working. This unforeseen problem did not hamper the rest of the operation and all the objectives for this spacewalk were achieved. Thus, the Russian module Rassvet delivered by the space shuttle Atlantis (mission STS-132) in May 2010 can now serve as a docking port for Soyouz and Progress.

Published 28 July 2010

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