Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:48:42 -0500 From: [email protected] Subject: NASA TELEVISION TO BROADCAST SPACE STATION SPACEWALK
August 1, 2011
Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111
Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100
Report #M11-161
NASA TELEVISION TO BROADCAST SPACE STATION SPACEWALK
HOUSTON -- Two cosmonauts will conduct a six-hour spacewalk on Wednesday, Aug. 3, to continue outfitting the Russian segment of the International Space Station. NASA Television will broadcast the spacewalk beginning at 9 a.m. CDT.
Expedition 28 Russian Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev will install laser communications equipment and replace experiments on the Zvezda service module. They also will retrieve a rendezvous antenna, relocate a boom structure to aid future spacewalks and deploy a small satellite equipped with an amateur radio transmitter and a student-built experiment.
The duo will wear Russian Orlan spacesuits and will emerge from the Pirs docking compartment airlock at about 9:30 a.m. The spacewalk will be the third for Volkov, who performed two spacewalks as Expedition 17 commander in 2008. This will be the first spacewalk for Samokutyaev.
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