MIRNEWS.138    9 JULY 1992

EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY MIR-CREW:

This relatively short and simple EVA has been exectued as planned: on 8 July
1992 between 1245 and 1450UTC. The EVA was a success and no further EVA's for
this repair will be necessary. The cosmonauts had to mend a valve on the
outersurface of Kvant-2 (Module-D). This valve makes vacuumization of one of the
gyrodyne-cases possible. The pair of gyro's in that case have to be replaced and
this work still has to be done. Back inside Kvant-2 the crew checked the
functioning of the valve: it worked perfectly. During the EVA the MIR station
was still out of our range. When MIR again was in range the crew took care of
spacesuits, equipment, tools, etc. and reported about their EVA. During the EVA
the crew lost some tools and so there are a few satellites more in space. From a
window in the transition section they saw the objects wandering around. During
the EVA traffic and TV images were relayed via the Geostationary Altair
satellite on 16 degr. W. My colleague Peter was able to record a lot of that
traffic and this still has to be analysed. If this traffic contains interesting
facts I will draft an additional report about this EVA.

Chris van den Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.