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Total EVAs: | 4 | ||
Total EVA time: | 23h 20m |
No. | Date | Together with | Time | Main tasks and notes |
1 | 10.07.2008 | O. Kononenko | 6h 18m |
Inspection of the
Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, checking the five locks that
attach the return module to the propulsion module, and retrieve a suspect
pyrotechnic bolt for inspection by engineers on the ground. They also installed
a docking target for a new Russian module scheduled for launch late summer
2009. |
2 | 15.07.2008 | O. Kononenko | 5h 54m |
Removing and installing science experiments.
They also installed rendezvous equipment for a new Russian module scheduled for
launch late summer 2009. |
3 | 03.08.2011 | A. Samokutyayev | 6h 23m |
Moving a small crane, installing a
communications terminal and removing and inspect antennas. Other tasks included
installing a materials science experiment and deploying a micro-satellite.
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4 | 03.02.2016 | Y. Malenchenko | 4h 45m |
They dismantled a monoblock responsible for
exposing samples of organic and biological materials at experiment Expose-R .
At the same module, they had to replace a removable cassette container.One of
the important tasks was works on an experiment with the goal to develop
technologies for sticking film thermal control coating. |
Russia and the U.S. define
EVA
differently. Russian cosmonauts are said to perform
EVA
any time they are in vacuum in a space suit. A U.S. astronaut must have at
least his head outside his spacecraft before he is said to perform an
EVA. |