Feb 26 2004
From The Space Library
ISS crew members Alexander Y. Kaleri and C. Michael Foale conducted a spacewalk, leaving the station vacant. The spacewalk marked the first time that the ISS crew had left the station without another crew member remaining on board to assist in case of emergency. The purpose of the spacewalk was to service experiments located on the station's exterior and to prepare the orbiting structure for future assembly work. The astronauts were unable to complete all of the planned tasks, however, because a problem with Kaleri's spacesuit prompted Russian flight controllers to end the spacewalk early. (William Harwood, “Spacewalk Is Cut Short; Malfunction in Cosmonaut's Suit Cited,” Washington Post, 27 February 2004.
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