NASA
astronaut John Phillips pauses for a photograph during his first spacewalk
outside the International Space Station (ISS).
Clad in a
Russian-built Orlan spacesuit, Phillips stepped outside the ISS for 4 hours and
58 minutes on Aug. 18 while serving as flight engineer for the eleventh expedition
to the space station.
Phillips
and ISS Expedition 11 commander Sergei Krikalev retrieved and replaced a series
of experiments from the station’s exterior during their spacewalk.
Krikalev
can be spied by the careful viewer in the reflection on Phillip’s helmet visor.
The Earth’s limb is also reflected in the visor, but also cuts across the upper
left of the image.
The
Expedition 11 crew is set to land in October 2005 after a six-month mission to
the ISS.
-- Tariq Malik
Credit: NASA/JPL.
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