Hardworking Crew Rocked the Space Station, Says Russian Mission Control Chief
Posted on: Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 06:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Korolev (Moscow Region), 3 August: The International Space Station crew worked so busily during their spacewalk that they "rocked" the space station. "Gennadiy Padalka and Michael Fincke worked so busily on the Russian Zvezda module that they caused additional disturbance", the head of the Mission Control Centre outside Moscow, Vladimir Solovyev, told journalists.
"The crew in fact 'rocked' the station, causing three US gyros to stop and the International Space Station to lose its orientation for twenty minutes," he told ITAR-TASS. [passage omitted: American and Russian specialists looking into it]
This has not happened before, Solovyev said. "There was just a hint of it during previous spacewalks," he said.
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