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main page newsspace newsoperations and experiments on the international space station august 3, 2011
Operations and experiments on the International Space Station August 3, 2011. / August 3, 2011 /August 3 at the Russian segment of International Space Station astronauts scheduled to exit into open space on the Russian program. Opening the exit hatch is scheduled for 18 hours 30 minutes Moscow time. First on the outer surface of the station flight engineer Alexander Samokutyaev will then be joined by his colleague, Sergei Volkov. The key objectives of output: launch a microsatellite «Cedar» (experiment «Radioskaf»), the transfer of cargo boom with the docking module «Pirs» on small research module (MIM), «Search», as well as a series of operations on the service module «Zvezda». Within the medical and biological experiments «Biorisk» to the surface, «Pierce» will place the platform with three containers, designed to study the possible influence of microorganisms on structural materials used in space technology. The astronauts will conduct photography equipment at MIM «Search» bar and «Komplast» FGB «Zarya» picture «Gagarin», «King», «Tsiolkovsky». The duration of all work in open space (from opening to closing of the exit hatch) on the calculated data is about six hours. ISS attitude control mode is supported on gyrodines American segment. The program of scientific experiments conducted aboard the Russian segment of ISS: The ISS crew members continue to work the 28th long-term expedition Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut commander Andrei Borisenko, flight engineers and cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev Sergei Volkov (Roscosmos), astronaut Ronald Garan and Michael Fossum (NASA), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA).
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