MIRNEWS.189    22 SEPTEMBER 1993

3d Spacewalk (EVA) put back:

Until 22.09.93 the cosmonauts made preparations for an EVA on
24.09.93. During that EVA they had to execute the program
'Panorama', which is an inspection of the outersurface of the
station by camera's. On 22.09.93 TsUP announced that the EVA
had been put back to 28.09.93. A reason for the delay has not
been stated. Possibly the unstable political situation in
Moscow has something to do with it, but technical reasons are
also possible. On 22.09.93 the crew worked on a problem with a
pressure-valve (KVD) of the airlock (Sh.S.O.) in Module-D.

MIR-station hit by a particle from outer space:

On 21.09.93 at abt. 1205UTC, while the station was near the
equator, Tsibliyev heard the clap of a particle colliding 
with MIR's outer surface. The impact caused a little cloud of
dust and released some pieces of paint of the wall. Tsibliyev
heard the impact while he was flying from Kvant-1 to the Base
Block. Serebrov, who was working in Module-D, did not hear it.

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.