[meteorite-list] Anti-Meteorite Work Completed on International Space Station

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200705311546.IAA06250_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/space/922317.htm

Anti-meteorite work completed on ISS
AFP
31 May 2007

Russian cosmonauts successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk to build
up the meteorite defences of the International Space Station (ISS) and
repair a navigation antennae, officials said on Thursday.

"Cosmonauts successfully dealt with the scheduled task. They set up
additional anti-meteorite panels on the ISS's Russian segment and
replaced the old high-frequency cable" for the antennae, a spokesperson
for the mission control centre outside Moscow said, as quoted by RIA
Novosti.

Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov began their mission at 11.09pm Moscow
time (7.09pm GMT) instead of 10.20pm as scheduled, as they had to lower
pressure in the docking block, Russian space officials earlier said.

The spacewalk was being monitored from within the ISS by US astronaut
Sunita Williams and on the ground at the mission control centre.
Received on Thu 31 May 2007 11:46:40 AM PDT