Cosmonauts install camera in spacewalk at ISS - Summary

Fri, 21 Jan 2011

Moscow - Two Russian cosmonauts installed a communications antenna and a camera outside the International Space Station Friday in their first spacewalk of the year.

Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka spent five hours and 23 minutes on the spacewalk.

They installed a camera outside the station that will allow for better viewing of the docking of Russian Soyuz capsules arriving at the ISS and an antenna that will allow the sending of large files back to Earth at 100 megabytes per second, US space agency NASA said.

The cosmonauts also removed a broken part outside the station that had been used for an earlier experiment and brought inside materials for an experiment about exposure to space.

It was the first spacewalk for Kondratyev outside the station orbiting 350 kilometers above Earth.

Three Russian spacewalks are planned for the year.

Current ISS residents also include Russian Alexander Kaleri, Americans Scott Kelly and Catherine Coleman and Italian Paolo Nespoli.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/363606,spacewalk-iss-summary.html.