Kodak paper glossy Photo, size 8” x 12” signed by cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka ISS Expedition 26, Soyuz TMA-01M.
The photo was taken on January 21, 2011. On this day, cosmonauts Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka performed a spacewalk lasting 5 hours and 22 minutes. According to the flight program, this EVA was designated as VKD-27.
On this photo cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev (out of frame), both Expedition 26 flight engineers, wearing "Orlan" spacesuits, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station.
During the second spacewalk ( EVA #27), conducted on 21 January 2011, Skripochka and cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev focused to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system.
Skripochka was designated as Extravehicular 2, and had a blue stripe on his spacesuit. Skripochka also wore a NASA-provided wireless television camera system and helmet lights to provide live point-of-view video to Mission Control-Moscow. Kondratyev and Skripochka began the five-hour, 23-minute spacewalk at 9:29 a.m. EST when the two cosmonauts opened the Pirs hatch and began exiting the RF segment of the space station. The spacewalk ended at 2:52 p.m EST. They deployed the antenna for the Radio Technical System for Information Transfer, an experimental system designed to enable large data files to be downlinked using radio technology at a speed of about 100 MB/s from space station's RF segment.
During the spacewalk, Kondratyev and Skripochka also removed the plasma pulse generator on the port side of the Zvezda module that was part of an experiment to investigate disturbances and changes in the ionosphere from space station impulse plasma flow.
The generator, was covered, removed and returned inside the Pirs airlock. They also removed the commercial Expose-R experiment from the port side of Zvezda. The joint Roscosmos and European Space Agency package contains a number of material samples that were left open to space conditions. Working inside the Pirs airlock, Kondratyev and Skripochka grabbed the new docking camera for the Rassvet module (MRM1) and carried it to the worksite on Rassvet. They installed the camera and mated the camera's cable to a pre-wired connector that will route the video into the space station.