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[b]Crew Readies for Thursday Spacewalk, Discusses Twitter[/b] The International Space Station crew members had a light workday Wednesday then adjusted their sleep schedule for an early wakeup to begin work on the only scheduled spacewalk of the Expedition 22 mission. Flight Engineers Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov will exit the station around 4:10 a.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 14 to ready the Mini-Research Module 2, known as Poisk, for future Russian vehicle dockings. NASA TV will begin coverage of the spacewalk at 3:30 a.m. CST. Credit: NASA TV The excursion marks the third spacewalk for Kotov, who made two spacewalks in 2007 totaling 11 hours and two minutes as an Expedition 15 flight engineer, and the first for Suraev. Suraev and Commander Jeff Williams will be the first to use the new docking port when they relocate their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda service module on Jan. 21. Before adhering to their early sleep schedule, Williams and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi discussed "tweeting" from orbit, the value of Twitter in engaging the public from space and the upcoming advent of Internet access on the station. Credit: NASA TV
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