Space Walks
| EVA | Spacewalkers | Start (UTC) | End | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVA 1 | Thomas D. Jones Robert L. Curbeam |
10 February 2001 15:50 |
10 February 2001 23:24 |
7 hours 34 minutes |
| Jones and Curbeam went to the payload bay of Atlantis where they disconnected cables and removed protective covers from the outside hatch of Destiny. Once at the installation site and after Destiny had been securely installed, the pair began connecting power and data cables. | ||||
| EVA 2 | Jones Curbeam |
12 February 2001 15:59 |
12 February 2001 22:49 |
6 hours 50 minutes |
| The pair of spacewalkers went outside and assisted the robot arm operator with removing the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) from the Z1 Truss segment and installing it onto the forward end of the Destiny laboratory. Once that task was complete Jones and Curbeam moved to a location on the Destiny lab and installed a Power Data and Grapple fixture and video signal converter, to be used with the Canadarm2. | ||||
| EVA 3 | Jones Curbeam |
14 February 2001 14:48 |
14 February 2001 20:13 |
5 hours 25 minutes |
| During the third and final spacewalk, the two spacewalkers attached a spare communications antenna to the International Space Station's exterior. They also double-checked connections between the Destiny lab and its docking port, released a cooling radiator on the station, inspected solar array connections at the top of the station and tested the ability of a spacewalker to carry an immobile crew member back to the shuttle airlock. | ||||
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