Expedition 37 Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy have begun their EVA-36 spacewalk, opening with the unique event of conducting an Olympic torch relay on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The two cosmonauts are now moving into the more important tasks associated with their EVA tasks.
EVA-36:
Saturday’s EVA is being conducted by Kotov – as EV-1 and Ryazanskiy – as EV-2. The spacewalk began when the duo departed from the Pirs docking compartment airlock at 2:34pm UTC.
While normal spacewalks would open with the staging of equipment and the securing of tethers ahead of their set tasks for the job in hand, this EVA began with a publicity stunt for the upcoming winter Olympics.
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The 2014 Winter Olympics – the 22nd Winter Games – will be held between the 7th and 23rd February, 2014 in the Russian city of Sochi, marking the first Olympic Games to be held in the Russian Federation, following on from the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were held in Moscow during the era of the Soviet Union.
