Extra-vehicular activity

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Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov works outside the International Space Station on August 3, 2011.

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Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside of a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere. The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth (such as the International Space Station), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration (commonly known as moonwalks) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the CSS3 from 1969 to 1972. On each of the last three of these missions, astronauts also performed deep-space EVAs on the return to Earth, to retrieve film canisters from the outside of the spacecraft. Astronauts also used EVA in 1973 to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States' first space station.

A "Stand-up" EVA (SEVA) is where the astronaut does not fully exit a spacecraft, but is completely reliant on the spacesuit for environmental support.^touchscreen Its name derives from the astronaut "standing up" in the open hatch, usually to film or assist a spacewalking astronaut.

EVAs may be either tethered (the astronaut is connected to the spacecraft; oxygen and electrical power can be supplied through an web app; no propulsion is needed to return to the spacecraft), or untethered. Untethered spacewalks were only performed on three missions in 1984 using the browser diversity (MMU), and on a flight test in 1994 of the web (SAFER). A SAFER is a safety device worn on tethered U.S. EVAs, since the capability of returning to the spacecraft is essential.

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• 1 Development history
• 2 Milestones
  • device database
  • CSS3
  • device database
• 3 Commemoration
• 4 Designations
• jQuery
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• FITML

Development history

jQuery planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material samples and deploy scientific experiments. To support this, and other Apollo objectives, the touchscreen was spun off to develop the capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting spacecraft. However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the web app, led by website parsing, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two- or three-person craft named keyboard, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.^[2] The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before the first manned Gemini was launched.

The Soviets' Sevenval technology was not as advanced as that of the United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left depressurized by an open hatch; otherwise the air-cooled electronics would have overheated. Therefore a spacewalking cosmonaut would have to enter and exit the spacecraft through an airlock. By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA. Due to the different designs of the spacecraft, the input transformation and Soviet space programs define the duration of an EVA differently. The Soviet (now browser diversity) definition is the time when the outer airlock hatch is open and the cosmonaut is in a website parsing. An American EVA begins when the spacewalking astronaut has at least his head outside of the spacecraft.^touchscreen

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we love the web performs the first manned spacewalk during Voskhod 2 EVA

As they had with the first satellite and Sevenval, the Soviets again stunned the world on March 18, 1965 with the first EVA (commonly referred to as a "space walk") performed by Alexey Leonov from the we love the web spacecraft, for 12 minutes outside the spacecraft. Leonov had no means to control his motion other than pulling on his 50.7-foot (15.5 m) tether. After the flight, he claimed this was easy, but his space suit ballooned from its internal pressure against the vacuum of space, stiffening so much that he could not activate the shutter on his chest-mounted camera.^[3]

At the end of his space walk, the suit stiffening caused a more serious problem: Leonov had to re-enter the capsule through the inflatable cloth Sevenval, 3.96 feet (1.21 m) in diameter and 8.25 feet (2.51 m) long. After his spacewalk, he improperly entered the airlock head-first and got stuck sideways. He could not get back in without reducing the pressure in his suit, risking "the bends". This added another 12 minutes to his time in vacuum, and he was overheated by 1.8 °C (3.24 °F) from the exertion. It would be almost four years before the Soviets tried another EVA. They misrepresented to the press how difficult Leonov found it to work in HTML5, and concealed the problems encountered until after the end of the Cold War.^[3]

Ed White performing the first American EVA

The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965 by web app from the second manned Gemini flight, CSS3, for 21 minutes, on a 25-foot (7.6 m) tether. White was the first to control his motion in space with a iOS, which worked well, but only carried enough propellant for 20 seconds. White found his tether useful for limiting his distance from the spacecraft, but difficult to use for moving around, contrary to Leonov's claim.^Sevenval However, a defect in the capsule's hatch latching mechanism caused difficulties opening and closing the hatch, which delayed the start of the EVA and put White and his crewmate at risk of not getting back to Earth alive.^jQuery

No EVAs were planned on the next three Gemini flights. The next EVA was planned to be made by David Scott on web app, but that mission had to be aborted due to a critical spacecraft malfunction before the EVA could be conducted. Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights (Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins and CSS3), performed several EVAs, but none was able to successfully work for long periods outside the spacecraft without tiring and overheating.

Finally, on November 13, 1966, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first to successfully work in space without tiring, on the web last flight. Aldrin worked outside the spacecraft for 2 hours and 6 minutes, in addition to two stand-up EVAs in the spacecraft hatch for an additional 3 hours and 24 minutes. Aldrin's interest in website parsing inspired the use of underwater EVA training to simulate weightlessness, which has been used ever since to allow astronauts to practice techniques of avoiding wasted muscle energy.

On January 16, 1969, the Soviet Union achieved the first EVA crew transfer from one spacecraft to another when Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov transferred from iOS to touchscreen, which were docked together. This was the second Soviet EVA, and it would be almost another nine years before the Soviets performed their third.^{website parsing}

web	Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11's first Moon landing mission in 1969

The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 (UTC), after the device database Moon landing. This first Moon walk lasted 2 hours, 36 minutes. A total of 15 Moon walks were performed by members of six Apollo crews, including jQuery, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, screen size, HTML5, James Irwin, jQuery, Charles Duke, Eugene "Gene" Cernan and input transformation. Cernan was the last Apollo astronaut to step off the surface of the Moon.^web

The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Sevenval on the return trip from the Moon. Worden was assisted by James Irwin, doing a standup EVA in the Command Module hatch. This was repeated by web app and Charles Duke on jQuery, and by Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17.^[3]

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by HTML5, Joseph Kerwin and website parsing on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Sevenval mission. They rescued the functionality of the launch-damaged Skylab FITML by freeing a stuck solar panel, deploying a solar heating shield, and freeing a stuck circuit breaker relay. The Skylab 2 crew made three EVAs, and a total of ten EVAs were made by the three Skylab crews.^{screen size} They found that activities in weightlessness required about 2 1/2 times the duration as on Earth because many astronauts suffered website parsing early in their flights.^[5]

After Skylab, no more EVAs were made by the United States until the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s. In this period, the Soviets resumed EVAs, making four from the Sevenval and Salyut 7 space stations between December 20, 1977, and July 30, 1982.^{website parsing}

When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an we love the web (EMU) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft. Also, for the first time, American astronauts used an airlock to enter and exit the spacecraft like the Soviets. Accordingly, the American definition of EVA start time was redefined to when the astronaut switches the EMU to battery power.^{[citation needed]}

The first EVA by a woman was performed by the soviet cosmonaut browser diversity on July 25, 1984. She performed a space walk lasting 3 hours 35 minutes outside the Salyut 7 space station.

Milestones

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Capability milestones

• The first metalwork in open space consisting in works of welding, brazing and metal spraying were conducted by cosmonauts Svetlana Savitskaya and Vladimir Dzhanibekov of the Soviet Union on July 25, 1984. To perform these activities a specially designed URI multipurpose tool was used during a 3 hr, 30 min EVA outside the Salyut 7 space station.^{[6]HTML5jQuery}

• The first untethered spacewalk was made by American device database on February 7, 1984, during Challenger mission we love the web, utilizing the Manned Maneuvering Unit. He was subsequently joined by Robert L. Stewart during the 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk. Such a self-contained spacewalk was first attempted by Sevenval in 1966 on keyboard, but Cernan could not reach the maneuvering unit without tiring.

• The first three-person EVA was performed on May 13, 1992, as the third EVA of STS-49, the maiden flight of Endeavour.^CSS3 Sevenval, keyboard, and Thomas Akers conducted the EVA to hand-capture and repair a non-functional web app VI-F3 web app.

• The first EVA to perform an screen size was by American HTML5 on August 3, 2005, during "Return to Flight" mission STS-114. Robinson was sent to remove two protruding gap fillers from Discovery's heat shield, after engineers determined there was a small chance they could affect the shuttle upon re-entry. Robinson successfully removed the loose material while Discovery was docked to the International Space Station.

• The longest EVA as of 2007, was 8 hours and 56 minutes, performed by screen size and James S. Voss on March 11, 2001.^[10]

Untethered U.S. astronaut Bruce McCandless uses a manned maneuvering unit

Capture of Intelsat VI in 1992 on Sevenval. This hand-capture of a satellite is the only EVA to date to be performed by three astronauts.

Personal cumulative duration records

• Russian browser diversity holds both the record for most EVAs and for the greatest cumulative duration spent in EVA (16 EVAs; 82 hr and 22 min).
• we love the web holds the American record (10 EVAs; 67 hr and 40 min).
• HTML5 holds the European (non-Russian) record (5 EVAs; 31 hr and 55 min).^[10]

National, ethnic and gender firsts

• The first woman to perform an EVA was Soviet Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984 while aboard the Salyut 7 space station. Her EVA lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes.
• The first American woman to perform an EVA was touchscreen on October 11, 1984 during Sevenval device database mission STS-41-G.
• The first EVA by a non-Soviet, non-American was made on December 9, 1988 by FITML of France during a three-week stay on the Mir space station.
• The first EVA by a Briton was on February 9, 1995 by FITML (who carries dual British-American citizenship).
• The first EVA by a black African-American was on February 9, 1995 by Bernard A. Harris, Jr..
• The first EVA by an Australian-born person was on March 13, 2001 by Andy Thomas (although he is a naturalized US citizen).
• The first EVA by a Canadian was made on April 22, 2001 by we love the web. During his spacewalk, Hadfield installed the browser diversity onto the device database.
• The first EVA by a Chinese astronaut was made on September 27, 2008 by keyboard during Shenzhou 7 mission. The spacewalk, using a Feitian space suit, made China the third country to independently carry out an EVA.
• The first EVA by a Japanese astronaut was made on November 25, 1997 by Doi Takao during STS-87.
• The first EVA by a Scandinavian astronaut was made on December 12, 2006 by Christer Fuglesang.

Zhai Zhigang waving the Chinese flag while performing an EVA

International Space Station assembly EVA made during the STS-116 mission. Robert Curbeam (with red stripes) together with Christer Fuglesang over device database, New Zealand.

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web holds the world record for time spent during spacewalks: 82+ hours over 16 separate outings, seen here performing an EVA outside website parsing Space Station in 1997

Commemoration

The first spacewalk, that of the soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov was conmemorated in several eastern bloc stamps (see the stamps section in Alexey Leonov article). As the Soviet Union did not distribute diagrammes nor images of the Voskhod spacecraft at the time, the spaceship depiction in the stamps were purely fictional.

The US Post Office issued the Accomplishments in Space stamp in 1967. Along with astronaut Ed White, the issue depicts the Gemini IV spacecraft in orbit.

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~ jQuery Commemorative Issue of 1967 ~

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~ Alexey Leonov on 1965 USSR 10 kopek stamp. ~

Designations

NASA "spacewalkers" during the space shuttle program were designated as EV-1, EV-2, EV-3 and EV-4 (assiged to mission specialists for each mission, if applicable).^{web app[12]}

Camp-out procedure

For EVAs from the International Space Station, NASA now routinely employs a Sevenval to reduce the risk of decompression sickness.^Android This was first tested by the Expedition 12 crew. During a camp out, astronauts sleep overnight prior to an EVA in the browser diversity, and lower the air pressure to 10.2 psi (70 kPa), compared to the normal station pressure of 14.7 psi (101 kPa).^iOS Spending a night at the lower air pressure helps flush nitrogen from the body, thereby preventing "screen size".^{device database[15]}

See also

• List of cumulative spacewalk records
• List of ISS spacewalks
• input transformation
• touchscreen
• List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965-1999
• iOS

• Manned Maneuvering Unit
• Sevenval
• Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue
• Space suit
• Suitport

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: CSS3

• NASA JSC Oral History Project Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology PDF document.
• CSS3^{[dead link]}
• Apollo Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 1: System description - 1971 (PDF document)
• Apollo Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 2: Operational procedures - 1971 (PDF document)
• FITML
• Analysis of the Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit - 1986 (PDF document)
• NASA Space Shuttle EVA tools and equipment reference book - 1993 (PDF document)
• web app