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first and EVA
The next morning, flight day five, Young and Duke ate breakfast and began preparations for the first extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ), or moonwalk, of the mission.
image: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA.
Astronauts also used EVA in 1973 to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States ' first space station.
Alexey Leonov performs the first manned spacewalk during Voskhod 2 EVA
As they had with the first satellite and first man in space, the Soviets again stunned the world on March 18, 1965 with the first EVA ( commonly referred to as a " space walk ") performed by Alexey Leonov from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, for 12 minutes outside the spacecraft.
Ed White performing the first American EVA
On January 16, 1969, the Soviet Union achieved the first EVA crew transfer from one spacecraft to another when Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, which were docked together.
The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Service Module on the return trip from the Moon.
The first EVA by a woman was performed by the soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984.
* The first three-person EVA was performed on May 13, 1992, as the third EVA of STS-49, the maiden flight of Endeavour.
* The first EVA to perform an in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle was by American Steve Robinson on August 3, 2005, during " Return to Flight " mission STS-114.
File: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Schmitt poses by the American flag, with Earth in the background, during Apollo 17's first EVA.
Experience has shown the greatest chance of exposure occurs near the gravitational field of a moon or planet, so these were first employed on the Apollo lunar EVA suits ( see American suit models below ).
After this basic training, the third group were assigned specializations, with Collins receiving his first choice of pressure suits and EVA.
For his first EVA Collins did not leave the Gemini capsule, but stood up through the hatch with a device that resembled a sextant.
A rotating allocation system was adopted, whereby in the first week, Mandarin Airlines, TransAsia Airways and UNI Air would fly four return flights each and China Airlines and EVA Airways will fly three flights each, and in the second week, four flights will be operated by TransAsia Airways, UNI Air and China Airlines, while EVA Airways and Mandarin Airlines will fly three flights.
Using new spacesuits designed specifically for the Space Shuttle program, Peterson and Musgrave successfully accomplished the program's first extravehicular activity ( EVA ), performing various tests in the orbiter's payload bay.
The station also saw two flights of Svetlana Savitskaya making her the second woman in space since 1963 and the first to perform an EVA.
Overcrowding of the airport in recent years prompted the construction of Terminal 2, which was opened on July 29, 2000, with half of its gates operational ; EVA Air was the first airline to move into Terminal 2.

first and repairs
Van Buren at first favored internal improvements, such as road repairs and canal creation, therefore proposing a constitutional amendment in 1824 to authorize such undertakings.
One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.
" implies it is not the first time the TARDIS had undergone repairs of its own doing.
By metaphorical extension, the term is also used for the first test made after assembly or repairs to a system, to provide some assurance that the system under test will not catastrophically fail.
The army maintained fort was the first chance on the trail to buy emergency supplies, do repairs, get medical aid, or mail a letter.
Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).
The church was damaged in 1069 during William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, but the first Norman archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, arriving in 1070, organised repairs.
For the first time in the history of the shuttle program, the shuttle stack was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building ( VAB ), where it was destacked and the orbiter returned to the orbiter processing facility, while the suspect booster underwent repairs.
While the engine repairs were underway, a severe storm caused contamination of the mission's primary cargo, the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, while it was in the Payload Change-out Room on the Rotating Service Structure at the launch pad.
The settlement soon grew as a deep-water port, specialising at first in ship repairs ; indeed, before the construction of the Panama Canal, Port Stanley was a major repair stop for boats travelling through the Straits of Magellan.
After several months of repairs and refits, the Dauntless ' first officer becomes her new captain, and after a brief resupply mission to the surviving Vesuvi colonies, an investigation into the star's destruction begins.
A third letter, handed to the FBI by a woman in Spokane, Washington and bearing a postmark from Seattle made reference to a " German bisque doll, dressed in a hula grass skirt ", sent to Seattle for repairs that would be completed sometime around the first week of February.
There may also be side agreements ( e. g., holdover tenants, delivery contracts, payment holdback for unacceptable repairs ), seller's right of first refusal for resale, declaration of trust, or other entity formation or consolidation ( incorporation, limited partnership investors, etc .).
After $ 50, 000 of repairs and a three-week delay in construction, Metropolitan Stadium opened in time to hold its first game, a minor league contest between the Millers and the Wichita Braves on April 24 of that year.
He commissioned the first detailed survey of Bodiam Castle in 1864, and undertook repairs to the tower at the southwest corner of the site, which had almost entirely collapsed.
The first bridge at Fordingbridge was built before 1252, when the bailiff and men of the town received a grant of pontage for one year towards its repairs.
After the first and second disaster, reconstruction and repairs were made, so there are distinguished three construction phases.
The grade was provided with the idea that they should be somewhat higher in standard than first sergeants ; that their knowledge of ordnance and of gunnery should be such that they would be able to make minor repairs to guns — to supervise all work in connection with guns ; to command detachments which were of such size as not to warrant a commissioned officer being assigned to them.
Oscar I took an interest in the palace and prevented it from being destroyed by doing the first repairs in 1846.
As backup commander of the first Skylab mission, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station.
In November 1685 ( Jōkyō 2 ), repairs were made to the main donjon roof ; in March 1709 ( Hōei 6 ) to the first and second stories of the main donjon ; in August 1720 ( Kyōhō 5 ) to the chidorihafu gables on the third and fourth levels of the main donjon ; and in December 1726 ( Kyōhō 11 ) to the third-level roofs, karahafu gables, the fourth-level roofs, and the copper tiles of the fifth-level roofs of the main donjon.
The Enterprise moves to an orbital shipyard for extensive repairs, and Riker, although offered command of his own ship, insists on remaining as the first officer.
After repairs to the college were completed in mid-1656, the first admissions were made.

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