Two Russian ISS crewmembers to take spacewalk Wed

MOSCOW, August 3 (Itar-Tass) - Two Russian cosmonauts of the
International Space Station (ISS) crew are to take a spacewalk on
Wednesday under the Russian programme.
An official at the Flight Control Center outside Moscow has told
Itar-Tass, "ISS-28 flight engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander
Samokutyayev are to open the hatches of the docking module Pier and launch
extravehicular activities (EVA) at 18:35, Moscow time".
Both cosmonauts will for the first time work in a computerized
spacesuits Orlan-MK with a liquid-crystal display unit. The insrumentation
will prompt them which systems and in in which sequence must be checked
prior to egress into the open space and what must be done in the even of
an unconventional situation.
To Samokutyayev, this will be a debut spacewalk in his career. His
crewmate Volkov is a more experienced cosmonaut: the first hereditary
cosmonaut of Russia has to his credit two EVA sessions with an aggregate
duration of over 12 hours. However, previously, he engaged in EVA in a
previous-series spacesuit Orlan-M.
At first the cosmonauts are to manually launch a student
microsatellite Kedr (cedar) which will be transmitting 25 messages of
greeting in 17 languages, as well as the photos of the Earth and
telemetric data from the scientific instrumentation and service systems.
The cosmonauts are then to install and switch on a monoblock of the
onboard laser communication terminal, and transfer a derrick from the
docking module Pier to the Poisk (search) one (MIM-2), mount a platform
with three Biorisk containers on the outer surface of Zvezda (star) module
and photograph the antenna of the interboard radio line and outboard
containets with specimens of materials.
The EVA will also include a "photo session" agains the background of
the Earth with portraits of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founder of
cosmonautics, spaceships' designer Sergei Korolyov, and the world's first
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
The launch of the microsatellite, which was named in honour of
Gagarin's call-signal, and the photographing of his portrait in the open
space are conducted in the scope of ceremonies on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of man's first-ever space flight.
The other crew members of the ISS-28 mission -- Russian cosmonaut
Andrei Borisenko, NASA astronauts Ronald Garan Michael Fossum, and
astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of the Japanese space agency JAXA - will
ensure the safety of their crew mates from board the ISS.
The EVA are expected to continue for five hours and 55 minutes.