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BID : ESAPR4595
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Subj: First ESA astronaut walks in space
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 02:48:04 EST
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Subject: Esa-ho-pr Press Release NΠ45-95
N 45-95 - Paris, 24 October 1995
First ESA astronaut walks in space
"Greetings from 400 km above the Earth ... It is hard to find
words for this incredible view.
I mean - it's like ... it's indescribable. The view is magnificent.
The station is now perpendicular to the Earth's surface.
This first Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) of an ESA
astronaut ties in very nicely with the Ministerial Conference.
It is an excellent sign for the future and I really hope from up
here between Earth and the sky that there will be lots of
European astronauts to follow, paving the way to our
participation in the International Space Station programme.
Greetings from Mir."
These were the words of ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter on
Friday 20 October, at the beginning of the EVA he carried
out in the course of ESA's EUROMIR 95 mission.
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev and ESA astronaut Thomas
Reiter opened the exit hatch located at the end of the Kvant-2
module at 12h50 CET. Following the established procedure
(see ESA press release n 42-95), Sergei Avdeev made his
way slowly along the Strelya mechanical arm to reach its
controls and then manoeuvred Thomas Reiter towards the
module where the European Science Exposure Facility - the
astrophysics and space environment payload of the
EUROMIR 95 mission - is located.
After installing the ESEF experiments and checking their
operation, at 15h02 CET the two crew members moved to
COMZA, a Russian experiment also located on Spectr, to
carry out a change of cartridges.
All operations were successfully completed by 16h23 CET,
when Sergei Avdeev started to activate the Strelya mechanical
arm to move Thomas Reiter back to the Kvant-2 module.
The spacewalk ended with the closing of the outer hatch at
18h06 CET and the middle hatch at 18h36 CET.
The second ESA Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) is scheduled
to take place at the beginning of February next year.
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