Station Crew Conducts Spacewalk Dress Rehearsal

Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka put on their Orlan spacesuits Friday to conduct a dress rehearsal of their upcoming spacewalk.

In the Pirs docking compartment, they checked out the suits and communications prior to their spacewalk Monday out of the Pirs airlock to install experiments and a work platform on the Russian segment of the station and to reposition a TV camera on the Rassvet module. Hatch opening for the start of the spacewalk is scheduled for 9 [...]

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