Description : 10 AOUT 2015
A spacewalk was performed by station Commander Gennadi Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Korniyenko on August 10, 2015 (5h 31m). They left the Pirs docking compartment in their Russian Orlan spacesuits for a photographic inspection of the station’s Russian segment, retrieval of an experiment, window cleaning and surface sampling.
Gennadi Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko installed devices called gap spanners on the hull of the station. These devices will facilitate the movement of crew members on future spacewalks. They also cleaned residue off of the windows of the Zvezda Service Module, installed fasteners on communications antennas, replaced an aging antenna used for the rendezvous and docking of visiting vehicles at Russian docking ports, and photographed a variety of locations and hardware on Zvezda and nearby modules. The pair also retrieved an experiment first deployed in 2013, the Obstanovka Experiment, which studies the interaction between the space station and the space plasma environment in low-Earth orbit, as it can affect power supply systems and other external surfaces.

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