Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin completed their expedition’s first spacewalk at 12:55 AM EST Thursday. They re-entered the Pirs docking compartment after a successful excursion that saw the retrieval of equipment, installation of an experiment and the inspection of a Kurs antenna on a docked Progress cargo craft. The highlight of the spacewalk was a golf swing as Mikhail hit a golf ball from the International Space Station as part of a Russian commercial activity.
Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter remained inside the orbiting platform monitoring station systems while his crew mates were working outside. The spacewalk lasted 5 hours and 38 minutes.
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What a colossal waste of money. Doesn’t NASA have anything better to do with our tax dollars?
Hi Dave. While I might agree that the stunt was a bit silly, it wasn’t done at our expense. Some golf company paid the Russian space agency to do it for publicity. Since the Russians and NASA are partners, I’m happy for incoming cash that doesn’t come out of my pocket.