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[i]Marked with blue stripes (as opposed to red) to facilitate identifying the wearer, no. 14 was first donned in space by Expedition 4 Commander Yuri Onufrienko for a pair of EVAs (extravehicular activities or spacewalks) in January 2002. Encased in the Orlan, Onufrienko (with crewmates Carl Walz and Daniel Bursch individually) extended a 50 foot cargo crane and installed two radio antennas and six thruster deflectors outside the station. Next to wear the spacesuit was Expedition 5 commander Valery Korzun, who, with U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson on August 16, 2002, and Sergei Treschev one week later, positioned debris shields, experiments and equipment (as well as two more ham radio antennas). More than a year later, Expedition 8 commander Michael Foale became the last to wear Orlan-M no. 14 while on a spacewalk. He and crewmate Alexander Kaleri retrieved, relocated and deployed experiments before their time was cut short by a faulty cooling system inside Kaleri's Orlan. In total, Orlan-M no. 14 protected three crewmembers for 20 hours and 44 minutes outside the ISS.[/i]
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