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| Total EVAs: | 3 | ||
| Total EVA time: | 16h 41m |
| No. | Date | Together with | Time | Main tasks and notes |
| 1 | 15.11.2010 | F. Yurchikhin | 6h 27m |
Installing a multipurpose workstation on the
starboard side of the Zvezda service module’s large-diameter section,
cleaning thermal insulation around the vents for the Elektron oxygen-generation
system and relocating a television camera from one end of the Rassvet docking
compartment to the other. |
| 2 | 21.01.2011 | D. Kondratiyev | 5h 23m |
Completing installation of a new high-speed data
transmission system, removing an old plasma pulse experiment, installing a
camera for the new Rassvet docking module and retrieving a materials exposure
package. |
| 3 | 16.02.2011 | D. Kondratiyev | 4h 51m |
They retrieved a pair of panels exposed to space
as part of an experiment to identify the best materials for building
long-duration spacecraft. The cosmonauts also deployed an experiment called
ARISSat-1, or Radioskaf-V. |
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Russia and the U.S. define
EVA
differently. Russian cosmonauts are said to perform
EVA
any time they are in vacuum in a space suit. A U.S. astronaut must have at
least his head outside his spacecraft before he is said to perform an
EVA. |