Oct 20 1997
From The Space Library
Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Y. Solovyev and Pavel V. Vinogradov conducted an "internal" spacewalk, entering the damaged Spektr module of Mir. Once inside the darkened module damaged by the June 1997 cargo craft collision, the men found floating space debris. Seven bags and a refrigerator door were among the items banging around inside the Spektr module. After securing the debris, the cosmonauts went to work installing new solar-panel cables to restore full power to Mir. The cosmonauts, who were wearing bulky spacesuits, performed the 6-hour spacewalk inside a cramped module. Although the men became exhausted before they could finish the repair work, the arduous exercise had boosted the station's power supply by 30 percent. Russian Space Agency officials planned for the cosmonauts to conduct another repair operation during the following days.
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