ISS Spacewalk Set For Today

 

"We are absolutely, 100 per cent ready for the EVA .... It's the right thing to do and everybody on board is gearing up for it," Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield told Mission Control at a planning conference Friday morning.

 

Hadfield, who took command in March, is the first Canadian to oversee the crew of the space station. The ammonia leak is the first notable glitch at the space station since he took command, and comes just days before he is scheduled to return to Earth. He seemed keen to meet the challenge.

"What a fun day!" he tweeted Friday afternoon. "This type of event is what the years of training were for. A happy, busy crew, working hard, loving life in space."

Hadfield, Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are scheduled to undock their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft at 7:08 p.m. ET Monday and land in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m.

What the hellish time to land is Kazakhstan. What is there to do in a field, in Kazakhstan before 11 p.m. on a Monday night? Might as well just sit there and pee in my spacesuit just to see if the new diaper feature is working. GAH!

You must also notice how cool and collected our young Canadian brother is doing in charge up there. That leak is no big thing and he has some hockey tape in his bag. Give that roll to those boys going outside and the job is done.

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