This
image of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov, both
Expedition 30 flight engineers, was taken during a spacewalk on
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. During the six-hour, 15-minute spacewalk,
Kononenko and Shkaplerov moved the Strela-1 crane from the Pirs Docking
Compartment in preparation for replacing it in 2012 with a new
laboratory and docking module. The duo used another boom, the Strela-2,
to move the hand-operated crane to the Poisk module for future assembly
and maintenance work. Both telescoping booms extend like fishing rods
and are used to move massive components outside the station. On the
exterior of the Poisk Mini-Research Module 2, they also installed the
Vinoslivost Materials Sample Experiment, which will investigate the
influence of space on the mechanical properties of the materials.
The
spacewalkers also collected a test sample from underneath the insulation
on the Zvezda Service Module to search for any signs of living
organisms. Both spacewalkers wore Russian Orlan spacesuits bearing blue
stripes and equipped with NASA helmet cameras.
Image Credit: NASA
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