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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 13:06
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Russian cosmonauts successfully complete space walk outside ISS
KOROLYOV, Moscow region (Itar-Tass) - Russian cosmonauts Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka have successfully fulfilled all the
objectives of an EVA job outside the International Space Station under the
Russian program of research and have returned to the station.
"At 00:23 Moscow Standard Time /21:23 GMT Monday/, the cosmonauts
returned to the station and sealed all the hatches," said Valery Lyndin.
"All in all, they spent six and a half hours in outer space instead of the
six hours scheduled initially."
"The space walks began at 17:30 Moscow Standard Time," he said.
The rest of the ISS-25 resident crew - the Russian cosmonaut Alexander
Kaleri and NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Douglas Willock and Scott Kelly
- were awaiting Yurchikhin and Skripochka inside the MIM-2 and MIM-1
modules.
Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka have successfully fulfilled all the
objectives of an EVA job outside the International Space Station under the
Russian program of research and have returned to the station.
"At 00:23 Moscow Standard Time /21:23 GMT Monday/, the cosmonauts
returned to the station and sealed all the hatches," said Valery Lyndin.
"All in all, they spent six and a half hours in outer space instead of the
six hours scheduled initially."
"The space walks began at 17:30 Moscow Standard Time," he said.
The rest of the ISS-25 resident crew - the Russian cosmonaut Alexander
Kaleri and NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Douglas Willock and Scott Kelly
- were awaiting Yurchikhin and Skripochka inside the MIM-2 and MIM-1
modules.