re: Spacewalks
Spaceflight Now
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The most visually-dramatic job occurs next. The crew will make its way back to the airlock and retrieve the nanosat. Sharipov is given the duty of deploying the foot-long, 11-pound object into space by hand-launching it like tossing a basketball.
Golden rule #2 as must to accomplish this task.
Bet that felt good and will be remembered in thought as a highlight to the EVA.
Going into Monday's excursion, 39 NASA astronauts, 10 Russian cosmonauts, one Canadian and one Frenchman have staged 57 space station assembly and maintenance spacewalks totaling 343 hours and 45 minutes since December 1998.