Source: nasa

09-18-2008 17:59

Astronaut Michael L. Gernhardt, STS-104 mission specialist, was photographed with a digital still camera during extravehicular activity (EVA) with the International Space Station (ISS). During this, the third, STS-104 space walk, Gernhardt and astronaut James F. Reilly attached a nitrogen supply tank to the Airlock Quest's shell and also moved hand-over-hand up the station's solar array truss to take a look at a gimbal assembly mechanism that allows the arrays to swivel with the Sun. This space walk was the first ever that has utilized the new airlock. The Quest Airlock was built and tested at the Space Station Manufacturing Building at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.