The spacewalk scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002
from the International Space Station has been postponed. As
a result, the status briefing planned to discuss the
upcoming extravehicular activity (EVA), at 2 p.m. EST,
Tuesday, Dec. 10, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston,
has been cancelled.
Postponement of the EVA, planned for Expedition Six
Commander Ken Bowersox and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin,
does not impact Expedition Six objectives, or the operations
of the Station. The planned EVA tasks included outfitting
the recently delivered Port 1 (P1) station truss segment and
performing “get-ahead” tasks in preparation for the arrival
of the next station truss segment, scheduled for launch in
May 2003.
Planning of the next spacewalk is underway, however it is
not anticipated to occur before January 2003.
