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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Didn't American astronaut Michael Foale have to stay alone in the Mir space station or the attached Soyuz capsule for his safety while the Russians outside in their space suits did repairs to it's exterior?

Not quite:

The two Russian cosmonauts of Mir 23, Vasily Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Lazutkin, conducted an intravehicular activity (IVA) to inspect the collision damage from the interior of the space station. During Mir 24, Foale and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev conducted a six-hour EVA in the Russian Orlan spacesuit to inspect exterior damage to the station's Spektr module.