Russian Spacewalkers Volkov And Kononenko Handling Explosive Bolts by Milota Sidorova

maragiuffro — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:36:52 -0400

Late that afternoon, as I was walking home, I was wondering how is the whole planet moving. The idea of that, there's still someone working, learning, cooking, operational or sleeping made me feel like a small link in the planetary chain. However, my thoughts embraced just the Earth, those universal perpettum mobile principle spreads out into the space. And so it was with yesterday’s space mission of two Russian astronauts. Just few minutes past seven p.m. they left the International Space Station as well as set up on theirs even second spacewalk this week. During these following an estimated 6 hours they installed one science experiment, took back another one, disposed explosive bolt from the space capsule Soyuz as well as straightened a radio antenna. At first of all, both astronauts, International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov as well as Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, living on ISS since April 2008 poured themselves into including a docking target of a Russian mini research module on the space-facing side of Zvezda. Module should aid to cover the demand of upcoming double sized Russian crew. Volkov as well as Kononenko made a quick switch off, when abolishing space Biorisk experiment focusing on space influence on bacteria as well as fungi. The experiment had been established by Expedition 15 spacewalkers as well as lasted an estimated a year. They also changed an experiment monitoring seismic effects via high-energy particle streams in the very close Earth’s environment. After few more reparations, they underwent the an estimated all difficult part of their trip – to remove the explosive bolt of space capsule Soyuz, that has been having significant difficulties while descending last months. According technicians it was a mistake of bolts that had speeded up the capsule as well as exposed the crew extremely high G-forces as well as landed hundreds miles from the planned area.. Volkov as well as Kononenko manipulated with a box of a force of M-80 firecracker as well as was easily to blown off. Naturally, one needs more than a rocky solid personality to handle this one. Moreover, when it’s been more than quarter per annum that you have been breathing natural Earth’s air. Well, fair enough, that is the destiny of astronauts. Due the possible failures as well as emergency, also American Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff has been referred to as on to enjoy the crew of Russian spacewalkers, during the entire mission.However, this time except of enormous portion of physical as well as mental exhaustion, nothing worse has happened. related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080715/ap_on_sc/space_station;_ylt=Aju9RYGNSsi01vrFDwRuYbGs0NUE by Milota Sidorovafor PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest as well as hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who desire to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone’s way of keeping in touch with the World.

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Russian Spacewalkers Volkov And Kononenko Handling Explosive Bolts by Milota Sidorova