[sarex] Spacewalkers Install Debris Panels

[Arthur Rowe]

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov successfully 
completed a 5-hour, 25-minute spacewalk from the Pirs docking 
compartment airlock Wednesday, installing Service Module Debris 
Protection (SMDP) panels and rerouting a Global Positioning System 
antenna cable.

Wednesday's spacewalk, which began at 3:05 p.m. EDT, marks the first 
spacewalk for both Yurchikhin and Kotov.

Additional SMDP panels will be installed on Zvezda during a second 
spacewalk on June 6. During that spacewalk Yurchikhin and Kotov also 
will install a section of an Ethernet cable on the Zarya module and a 
Russian experiment called Biorisk on Pirs.

+ Read more about the spacewalk 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_eva18.html> 


+ Expedition 15 Spacewalk Briefing Materials, May 23, 2007 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_msb_052307.html>
+ Read more about the Progress 25 docking 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_progress25_launch.html>
+ Read more about Expedition 15 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.html>
+ View crew daily timelines 
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html>