Hello space, my old friend
ISS crew members conducted a rather long, 5-1/2 hour space walk last night. NASA-TV is running video clips today.LinkClad in nearly identical, Russian-built Orlan spacesuits with red stripes - [Leroy] Chiao's suit sported a U.S. flag for identification - the Expedition 10 crew opened the outer hatch of the station's Pirs docking compartment at 2:43 a.m. EST (0743 GMT).
"Hello space, my old friend," said Chiao, a spacewalk veteran, as stepped outside Pirs compartment. The extravehicular activity was the fifth spacewalk of Chiao's career while marking [Salizhan] Sharipov's first foray outside a spacecraft.
"It's so cold, and so beautiful," said Salizhan as he followed Chiao out the hatch.
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