2006 in Spaceflight - EVAs

EVAs

Start Date/Time Duration End Time Spacecraft Crew Function Remarks
3 February
09:55
5 hours
43 minutes
16:27 Expedition 12
ISS Pirs
William S. McArthur
Valery Tokarev
Released SuitSat-1, retrieved the Biorisk experiment, photographed a sensor for a micrometeoroid experiment, and tied off the surviving umbilical of the Mobile Transporter.
1 June
23:48
6 hours
31 minutes
2 June
06:19
Expedition 13
ISS Pirs
Pavel Vinogradov
Jeffrey Williams
Repaired a vent for the Elektron unit, retrieved a Biorisk experiment, retrieved a contamination-monitoring device from Zvezda, and replaced a malfunctioning camera on the Mobile Base System.
8 July
13:17
7 hours
31 minutes
20:48 STS-121
ISS Quest
/Piers Sellers
Michael E. Fossum
Installed a blade blocker in the zenith Interface Umbilical Assembly (IUA) to protect the undamaged power, data and video cable, rerouted the cable to prepare for the second EVA. Tested the combination of the SSRMS and the Orbiter Boom Sensor System as a platform for astronauts to make repairs to a damaged orbiter.
10 July
12:14
6 hours
47 minutes
19:01 STS-121
ISS Quest
/Piers Sellers
Michael E. Fossum
Restored the Mobile Transporter to full operation, and delivered a spare pump module for the station’s cooling system.
12 July
07:11
6 hours
20 minutes
13:31 STS-121
ISS Quest
/Piers Sellers
Michael E. Fossum
Used an infrared camera to shoot 20 seconds of video of selected reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels on the shuttle wing’s leading edge, and then moved to the payload bay to test a shuttle tile repair material known as NOAX on pre-damaged shuttle tiles that were flown in a test container.
3 August
14:04
5 hours
54 minutes
19:58 Expedition 13
ISS Quest
Jeffrey Williams
Thomas Reiter
Installed the Floating Potential Measurement Unit, two MISSE containers, a controller for a thermal radiator rotary joint on the S1 truss, a starboard jumper and spool positioning device on S1, a light on the truss railway handcart, and installed and replaced a malfunctioning GPS antenna. Tested an infrared camera designed to detect damage in a shuttle's thermal protection tiles. Inspection and photography of a scratch on the Quest airlock hatch.
12 September
10:17
5 hours
26 minutes
15:43 STS-115
ISS Quest
Joseph R. Tanner
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Initial installation of the P3/P4 truss. Connected power cables on the truss, released the launch restraints on the solar array blanket box, the Beta Gimbal Assembly, and the solar array wings. Configured the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, and removed two circuit interrupt devices to prepare for STS-116. Piper became the 7th American and the 8th female spacewalker.
13 September
09:05
7 hours
11 minutes
16:16 STS-115
ISS Quest
Daniel C. Burbank
Steven MacLean
Continued installation of the P3/4 truss onto the station, and activated the SARJ.
15 September
10:00
6 hours
42 minutes
16:42 STS-115
ISS Quest
Joseph R. Tanner
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Installed a radiator onto the P3/4 truss, powered up a cooling radiator for the new solar arrays, replaced an S-Band radio antenna, and installed insulation for another antenna. Tanner took photos of the shuttle's wings using an infrared camera.
22 November
23:17
5 hours
38 minutes
23 November
04:55
Expedition 14
ISS Pirs
Mikhail Tyurin
Michael Lopez-Alegria
"Orbiting golf shot" event sponsored by a Canadian golf company. Lopez-Alegria put the tee on the ladder outside Pirs, while Tyurin set up a camera, and then performed the golf shot. Inspected and photographed a Kurs antenna, relocated an ATV WAL antenna, installed a BTN neutron experiment, and jettisoned two thermal covers from the BTN.
12 December
20:31
6 hours
36 minutes
13 December
03:07
STS-116
ISS Quest
Robert Curbeam
Christer Fuglesang
Installed the P5 Truss, and replaced a video camera on the S1 truss.
14 December
19:41
5 hours 15 December
00:41
STS-116
ISS Quest
Robert Curbeam
Christer Fuglesang
Reconfigured channels 2–3 on the P3/P4 truss to take advantage of the new solar arrays, relocated two handcarts that run along the station's main truss, put a thermal cover on the station's robotic arm, and installed bags of tools for future spacewalkers.
16 December
19:25
7 hours
31 minutes
17 December
02:57
STS-116
ISS Quest
Robert Curbeam
Sunita Williams
Reconfigured channels 1 and 4 on the P3/P4 truss to take advantage of the new solar arrays, installed a robotic arm grapple fixture, and positioned three bundles ofdebris shield panels outside Zvezda. Additional time was spent trying to help retract the P6 solar array panel by shaking the panel's blanket box from its base. Williams became the 8th American and the 9th female spacewalker.
18 December
19:00
6 hours
38 minutes
19 December
01:38
STS-116
ISS Quest
Robert Curbeam
Christer Fuglesang
Assisted ground controllers with retracting the P6 solar array panels.

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