MIRNEWS.294 15 MARCH 1996 1st Spacewalk (EVA) crew MIR Main Expedition nr. 21: Onufriyenko and Usachov opened the hatch of the airlock of Module-D on 15.03.1996 at 0104UTC and closed this at 0655UTC. So duration of the EVA: 5 hrs 51 mins. The cosmonauts accomplished all tasks: 1. The installation of a 2de Strela crane on the Basis Block. 2. The connection of cables and electrocontacts at the outer surface of Kvant-1 (Module-E) for the installation in the near future of a solarbattery on that module. The new Strela has been tested and found operational. STS-76, Atlantis: The launch of this shuttle is still planned for 21.03.1996 at 0835UTC; docking with MIR 43 after launch. Atlantis will remain docked at MIR for 5 days; landing on KSC scheduled for 30.03.1996 at 1305UTC. During the period in which Atlantis and MIR are one complex 1 or 2 EVA's will be made by American astronauts. (NASA speaks about 1 EVA; the Russians about 1 or 2). 2de EVA crew MIR's 21ste M.E.: not before May 1996. Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202.