ISS Expedition 18 Spacewalk

ISS Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov floated outside the station’s Russian airlock at 12:22 p.m. EDT to install an experiment that will expose samples to space, remove some unnecessary straps in the area of a docking target and photograph the exterior of the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

The Exposing Specimens of Organic and Biological Materials to Open Space (Expose-R) experiment will be installed on the universal science platform mounted to the exterior of the Zvezda Service Module.

March 10
12 p.m. - ISS Expedition 18 Spacewalk Coverage
"Tuesday’s spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 12:20 p.m. EDT. NASA Television coverage begins at noon. "
Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov will install EXPOSE-R, a European experiment that exposes seeds and spores to the space environment.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

03/11/09 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A launch – S6 truss segment --- 9:20:10pm EDT
03/13/09 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A docking --- 6:27pm EDT
03/23/09 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A undocking --- 10:23am EDT
03/25/09 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A deorbit (Orbit 217) & landing --- 3:27pm EDT (KSC)
03/26/09 -- Soyuz TMA-14/18S launch
03/28/09 -- STS-119/Discovery/15A landing (tentative)
03/28/09 -- Soyuz TMA-14/18S docking (DC1)
04/07/09 -- Soyuz TMA-13/17S undocking & landing"
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/

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ISS Expedition 18 Spacewalk