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Russian cosmonaut Sergey Avdeev during EVA

author: ESA/CNES/Novapix

reference: e-mir10-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 22 cm

On July 28, 1999, during his record-breaking "Perseus" mission to Russia's Mir space station, ESA astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré, from France, took this picture of Russian cosmonaut Sergey Avdeev working on the Russian-Georgian Reflector experiment installed on the Sofora mast. Reflector was designed to demonstrate the deployment of a large 6.4-meter-diameter antenna but failed after reaching only 3 meters.

Keywords for this photo:

1999 - AVDEYEV SERGEI - COSMONAUT - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EVA - EXTRA VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRA-VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY - HORIZON - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MIR - ORLAN - PERSEUS - RUSSIA - SPACE - SPACE STATION -