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1. NASA Television Updates Broadcast Time for Aug 22 Russian Spacewalk

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 13:29:50 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Television Updates Broadcast Time for Aug 22 Russian Spacewalk

August 6, 2013

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-127

NASA Television Updates Broadcast Time for Aug 22 Russian Spacewalk

NASA Television will provide live coverage as two Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station on spacewalks Friday, Aug 16, and Thursday, Aug 22

Because of real-time planning changes, the Aug 22 spacewalk now is scheduled to begin at 7:40 a m EDT NASA Television coverage will begin at 7 a m For the Aug 16 spacewalk, NASA TV coverage will begin at 10 a m

During the spacewalks, Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will install equipment for the arrival of a new Russian module and begin preparations for the installation later this year of an optical telescope

On Aug 16, the two cosmonauts will exit the Pirs airlock at about 10:40 a m for a spacewalk scheduled to last about 6 1/2 hours They plan to continue routing power and Ethernet cables for the future arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, which will be launched aboard a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan They also will install on the Poisk module a panel of experiments designed to collect data on the effects of the microgravity environment in low-Earth orbit

For the Aug 22 spacewalk, Yurchikhin and Misurkin will remove a space laser communications system from the hull of the Zvezda service module and install a pointing platform on which a small optical telescope will be installed on a future Russian spacewalk

The spacewalks will be the 172nd and 173rd in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the seventh and eighth of Yurchikhin�s career and the second and third for Misurkin Yurchikhin will wear a Russian Orlan suit bearing red stripes, and Misurkin will wear a suit with blue stripes Misurkin�s suit also will be equipped with a U S helmet camera to provide close up views of the work he will be performing outside the station

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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