Spacewalking!

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 22 Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Max Suraev conducted a 5 hour, 44 minute spacewalk Jan. 14 to outfit the new Russian Poisk module for future dockings by Russian spacecraft at the orbiting laboratory. Kotov and Suraev set up rendezvous equipment and docking targets on the Poisk, setting the stage for the scheduled relocation
of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft by Suraev and Station Commander Jeff Williams Jan. 21. They will fly the Soyuz from the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module for the maiden docking to the newly equipped Poisk.

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[martindanny]

Well Done !

You're our HEROES!

[SovietNinjah]

Hope NASA shows us info on the Mars Expedition

[Krurnosai]

Damn i bet they have super fast internet connection up there :-D And btw... 4 hours long space walking? What if you had to fart.. The smell would go through your whole suite and you would breath in it omfg XD

[netsoj]

Ethernet in space! Wow it's good to know that networking media has value outside of Earth.

[josephgrovers]

Well yeah, the international space station is, i just wonder if they will ever both do joint funding for a mars mission or something.

[britoca]

the same way that Chinese cameras show no stars, Russian cameras show no stars, Indian cameras show no stars, Japanese cameras show no stars, just like NASA's cameras show no stars, that's how.

[MrToad321]

@Blueknightex the light wont be visible to the people that are watching from video but to the astronauts that are actually on the moon, they'll be able to see stars. Not clearly though because as we know..the moon reflects off a lot of light so the stars will be hard to see. The people who are watching from video can't see cause of the camera's lighting. To see stars clearly, you need complete darkness.

[Blueknightex]

@MrToad321 - what if the astronauts went to the moon..will the stars be visible in the background or still no?

[nub50wn]

Oh ok, thanks for that.

[britoca]

no man, the stars are too faint to see, that's all. The earth is very bright, and most surfaces of the ISS are either white or metallic, so in order to keep the lighting right in the video, the cameras adjust the lighting accordingly, which means that the stars being so faint, do not show up in the video. Same as the Apollo lunar surface pictures, the moon reflects too much light for stars to show on film.

[britoca]

good job guys!