posted 06-26-2013 04:45 PM               

Is it considered a shuttle or ISS EVA?

posted 06-26-2013 05:05 PM               

The last spacewalk to be performed by space shuttle crew members took place on STS-134, but not the last spacewalk to be performed during a space shuttle mission.

Although STS-135 was not originally intended to include a spacewalk, the desire to return a pump module that failed on the International Space Station in 2010 to the Earth for analysis made one necessary, and over time other tasks were added to it as well. With only four people, however, the STS-135 crew was too small to perform a spacewalk on top of all of its other work. So members of the Expedition 28 crew were recruited for the job, though the shuttle crew members will still support the spacewalk from inside the space station.

posted 09-01-2016 12:35 PM            

Following the first volume of "Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology," which recounted the period from the first spacewalks in 1965 to the end of the Shuttle-Mir program in 1997, this second volume of "Walking to Olympus" spans the period from 1997 to the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

It includes not only spacewalks performed by American and European astronauts and the Russian/Soviet cosmonauts, but also those of the newest members of the EVA community, the taikonauts of the People's Republic of China. Several key events and themes from this period include the building of the ISS, the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the STS-107 Columbia accident.

The publication of this second EVA chronology follows two major anniversaries of significance to the spaceflight community: the 50th anniversary of the first EVA and the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The phrase "Walking to Olympus" is a symbolic expression of humans inevitably landing on Mars and exploring the planet, including Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system.