Just a Space update from Space.com:
First spacewalk concludes
Update for Sunday, July 15, 2001
at 5:15 a.m. EDT
The first of three planned spacewalks during this shuttle mission is history and can be declared a success with the troublefree installation of a new \\$164 million airlock called Quest.
Atlantis astronauts Michael Gernhardt and Jim Reilly are safely back inside the shuttle's airlock and that small volume is now repressurizing. Total spacewalk time for today: Five hours and 59 minutes.
Later this morning the space station crew will open a Unity hatch that leads to the new airlock to complete some cable hookups, but the main hatch into the airlock itself won't be opened until later tonight after the crew's next sleep shift.
With the next spacewalk not planned until Tuesday night, the hatches between Atlantis and the station also will be opened later to allow the crews to mingle and transfer equipment between the two vehicles
Update for Sunday, July 15, 2001
at 5:15 a.m. EDT
The first of three planned spacewalks during this shuttle mission is history and can be declared a success with the troublefree installation of a new \\$164 million airlock called Quest.
Atlantis astronauts Michael Gernhardt and Jim Reilly are safely back inside the shuttle's airlock and that small volume is now repressurizing. Total spacewalk time for today: Five hours and 59 minutes.
Later this morning the space station crew will open a Unity hatch that leads to the new airlock to complete some cable hookups, but the main hatch into the airlock itself won't be opened until later tonight after the crew's next sleep shift.
With the next spacewalk not planned until Tuesday night, the hatches between Atlantis and the station also will be opened later to allow the crews to mingle and transfer equipment between the two vehicles
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