Expedition 14 crew members will exit the International Space Station on Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. EST. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin will retrieve equipment, manually retract an antenna and photograph a docking port on the Zvezda service module. Tyurin will also hit a golf ball from the station's Pirs docking compartment. The golf swing is part of a Russian commercial activity.
The crew is reviewing the spacewalk timeline and paying special attention to a recently added task. The spacewalkers will manually retract a Kurs antenna on the Progress cargo vehicle that docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module on Oct. 26. Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter will remain inside the orbiting outpost while Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin go about their mission's first spacewalk.
