Forwarding 3 (ISS)

The Expédition 3 was the third live mission on board the International space station.

Crew

Frank Culbertson (3), Commander - E. - U.
Mikhail Tyurin (1), Engineer sailing - Russia
Vladimir Dezhurov (2), Ordering Soyuz - Russia

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Mission

The crew could contemplate, from a single point of view, the rain of meteors of the Léonides of 2001. “One would have believed to see UFOs, approaching the ground, flying in formation by group of three or four” remembers the astronaut Franck Culberston. “There were of them hundreds which passed in lower part us, really spectacular! ”. The media had warned the astronomers in advance: “The November 18th 2001, the ground will trace a furrow through a remains field spread by the Tempel-Tuttle comet”. Innumerable residues of comet dust will become shooting stars by striking the terrestrial atmosphere with 64 000 km/h. The experts envisaged an unforgettable vision and it was it. Million people could appreciate the spectacle, only three of them, those which were on board space station, saw it top. “We were to look at downwards to see the meteors” brings back Culberston. “It is because the atmosphere (where the comet dust ignites) is under the station. ”

Exits

The members of the crew of forwarding 3 carried out four exits in order to continue the construction and the maintenance of the international space station. The first three exits were used to equip the Russian compartment with mooring, named Pirs . Fourth the purpose of displacement of an obstruction was which blocked the mooring of the capsule of supply Progres 6 at the station. Each of the four exits was carried out starting from the compartment Pirs . The excursions of forwarding three, changed the full number of the exits starting from the station to six and the number of exits in support to the assembly and maintenance of the station to thirty.

These exits also made it possible to learn how more about the necessary walks of space to establish the international space station.

Identification of the combinations of the cosmonauts and astronauts:

Vladimir Dezhurov: red bands
Mikhail Tyurin: blue bands
Frank Culbertson: blue bands

Exit 1

Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin
Time: 4 hours, 58 minutes
Beginning: 14:23 GMT October 8th 2001
End: 19:21 GMT October 8th, 2001

Dezhurov and Tyurin carried out connections between the compartment Pirs and modulates it service Zvezda of the station. They posed a cable which will allow radio communications for the exits between the two sections of the station. The walkers of space also installed a slope on the new compartment. Then, they placed an external scale which will help them to be extracted by the trap door from Pirs . To finish Tyurin and Dezhurov fixed the crane of loading Strela on the station.

Exit 2

Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin
Time: 5 hours, 52 minutes
Beginning: 09:17 GMT October 15th 2001
End: 15:09 GMT October 15th, 2001

Dezhurov and Tyurin installed on the outside of Pirs the equipment for Russian commercial experiments. Among the experiments, one finds a series of research on the reactions of various materials exposed to the space environment over one long period of time. Named MPAC-SEEDS, these experiments take place in three containers of the size of a case.

Exit 3

Vladimir Dezhurov, Frank Culbertson
Time: 5 hours, 4 minutes
Beginning: 21:41 GMT November 12th 2001
End: 02:45 GMT November 13rd 2001

Dezhurov and Culbertson connected cables on the outside of Pirs for the automated system of stowing Kurs . They completed the checks of the crane Strela , one of them being held at the end of the crane jib to simulate a load. They also inspected and photographed a solar panel on the module of service Zvezda of which a part is not completely deployed.

Exit 4

Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin
Time: 2 hours, 46 minutes
Beginning: 13:20 GMT December 3rd 2001
End: 16:06 GMT December 3rd, 2001

The two cosmonauts withdrew an object preventing the vessel of supply Progres from firmly fastening itself at the space station. Then they photographed the interface of stowing and the remains, which were a rubber seal coming from a preceding capsule of supply.

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