New Space Station Crew Completes First Spacewalk

摘要

The crew of the international space station (ISS) successfully installed new equipment on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory during a five-hour and 20-minute spacewalk Jan. 26. The spacewalk was conducted by ISS Expedition 10 commander Leroy Ghiao and flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov, the only two crew members currently living aboard the station, Chiao and Sharipov worked swiftly to complete all of their spacewalk goals, including the installation of a new work platform and test robot outside the Russian-built Zvezda service module. They also relocated a Japanese space environment exposure experiment, plugged in an antenna for the robot test bed and studied ISS vents used by the station's Elektron oxygen generator and other life support systems.