1998 in Spaceflight - EVAs

EVAs

Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft Crew Function Remarks
8 January
23:08
3 hours
6 minutes
9 January
02:14
Mir EO-24 Anatoly Solovyev
Pavel Vinogradov
Repaired the damaged airlock sealing system, used the Strela boom to move across Mir and recover an American optical monitoring experiment. Checked the integrity of cable connects to several antennas.
14 January
21:12
3 hours
52 minutes
15 January
01:04
Mir EO-24 Anatoly Solovyev
David Wolf
Continued to make more repairs to the airlock hatch on Kvant-2 and used a handheld photo-reflectometer to inspect the exterior surface of the station.
1 April
13:35
6 hours
40 minutes
20:15 Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
Installed a set of handrails and one of two foot restraints on the outside of the Spektr module in preparation for the repair of the damaged solar array.
6 April
13:35
4 hours
15 minutes
17:50 Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
Begin repair of the damaged Spektr solar panel. After installing a splint on the frayed panel, the spacewalkers had to quickly return to the airlock to handle a problem with station attitude control.
11 April
09:55
6 Hours
25 minutes
16:20 Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
Jettisoned the external thruster engine (VDU) that had been located at the top of the Sofora boom and recover an experiment from the Rapana structure. Dismantling of the Rapana structure was not completed.
17 April
07:40
6 Hours
33 minutes
14:13 Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
Removed two structures and secured them to exterior surfaces and repositioned the new thrust engine (VDU) for future use.
22 April
05:34
6 Hours
21 minutes
11:55 Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
Completed installation of the new VDU thruster unit on top of the Sofora boom.
15 September
20:00
30 minutes 20:30 Mir EO-26 Gennady Padalka
Sergei Avdeyev
Internal spacewalk in the depressurised Spektr module to connect electrical and control cables to the solar array servo motor.
10 November
19:24
5 hours
54 minutes
11 November
01:18
Mir EO-26 Gennady Padalka
Sergei Avdeyev
Deployed Sputnik-41, deployed a French "meteorite trap" intended to catch some dust from the upcoming Leonids meteor shower.
7 December
22:10
7 hours
21 minutes
8 December
05:31
STS-88
ISS Endeavour
Jerry L. Ross
James H. Newman
Connected computer and electrical cables between the Unity node, the two mating adapters attached to either end of Unity, and the Zarya Functional Cargo Block (FGB). First ISS assembly EVA
9 December
20:33
7 hours
2 minutes
10 December
03:35
STS-88
ISS Endeavour
Jerry L. Ross
James H. Newman
Installed two box-like antennas on the outside of the Unity module that are part of the S-band early communications system.
12 December
20:33
6 hours
59 minutes
13 December
03:32
STS-88
ISS Endeavour
Jerry L. Ross
James H. Newman
Checked on an insulation cover on a cable connection on the lower Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA-2) to make sure it was fully installed, attached EVA tools on the side of Unity's upper mating adapter (PMA-1) in preparation for future EVAs, and inspected Orbiter Space Vision System targets on Unity.

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