'Wave goodbye to it. Rest in peace.'
"Wave goodbye to it," advised Mission Control Moscow, as Prokopyev prepared to toss one of the items into space."Rest in peace."
The jettisons, which also included the stanchions that had held the equipment on Zvezda, made way for the installation of new hardware, including a mono block for a new high-speed data unit that Prokopyev and Petelin mounted on the module. The two spacewalkers also photo documented the condition of the plume deflectors at the aft end of Zvezda service module for later analysis by Russian engineers on the ground. The deflectors shield the station from the plume of the module's engines. The inspection comes almost 23 years after Zvezda was launched atop a Russian Proton"It looks like a dirty frying pan," said Prokopyev."That could have made some good fries in it.
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