ISS crew members conducted a rather long, 5-1/2 hour space walk last night. NASA-TV is running video clips today.
Clad 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.
