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Yesterday's spacewalk to install a panel of experiments on the Poisk module of the Russian segment of the complex and to install cables in advance of the launch of a new Russian laboratory module to the orbital outpost.
 

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Due to start at 15:40 BST tomorrow.

MEDIA ADVISORY M13-123

NASA Television to Broadcast Two Russian Spacewalks in August

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.

NASA TV coverage will begin at 10 a.m. EDT both days.

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.

The Aug. 22 spacewalk also is scheduled to begin at about 10:40 a.m. 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.
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Just seen this on Twitter :)

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/columbia.html


The Columbia supercomputer gained worldwide recognition in 2004 for increasing NASA's key high-end computing capability ten-fold for missions in aeronautics, space exploration, and Earth and space sciences. Its combined speed and productivity made Columbia the most powerful supercomputer of its time. The system was critical to NASA's Return to Flight (RTF) effort, and for near-real-time simulations that contributed to the safety of subsequent shuttle missions. The system was named to honor the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107, lost in 2003.
 

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Another test completed:

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During the two-hour test, an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter picked up a test version of the Dream Chaser flight vehicle and flew it a distance of three miles over a dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base at a maximum altitude of approximately 12,400 feet. The test paves the way for upcoming free-flight tests at Dryden this fall as part of the company's agreements with NASA. SNC is working with NASA to develop Dream Chaser through the agency's commercial crew development initiatives. New commercial spaceflight capabilities being developed by NASA partners through these initiatives eventually could provide launch services to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
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