Russian
cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko spent almost six hours
in space and returned safely to the International Space Station,
according to the Mission Control Center. Spacewalk began an hour after the scheduled time
due to problems with integrity hatches.
Exit astronauts into space, in accordance with the flight program started at 19:38 GMT. Padalka and Malenchenko transferred derrick crane GStM-2 with the docking module (SO-1) "Pirs" module on "Dawn." Astronauts launched Sputnik "Sphere" and installed on the operating section of small diameter (DR-1) service module "Zvezda" additional panels for protection from meteorites. Russians also dismantled the container "Biorisk-MSN", which contains samples of materials for medical and biological experiments on the effects of cosmic radiation. Was installed a small platform, which hosts several containers with microorganisms and mushroom spores - is to find out what effect they have on the materials of construction for space technology. Sample container, dismantled by the astronauts will be sent to scientists on Earth. Padalka and Malenchenko also installed struts remote workstation on the docking bay "Pierce."
Hatch station was closed at 01:28, Russian cosmonauts spent in space 5 hours 50 minutes. Apart Padalka and Malenchenko on the ISS are now NASA astronauts Joseph Aqaba and Sanita Williams, representative of the Japanese space agency Akihiko Hoshide and another Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Revin. EVA was for ISS second this year. The first output of the Russian program in February, it carried cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko.
Exit astronauts into space, in accordance with the flight program started at 19:38 GMT. Padalka and Malenchenko transferred derrick crane GStM-2 with the docking module (SO-1) "Pirs" module on "Dawn." Astronauts launched Sputnik "Sphere" and installed on the operating section of small diameter (DR-1) service module "Zvezda" additional panels for protection from meteorites. Russians also dismantled the container "Biorisk-MSN", which contains samples of materials for medical and biological experiments on the effects of cosmic radiation. Was installed a small platform, which hosts several containers with microorganisms and mushroom spores - is to find out what effect they have on the materials of construction for space technology. Sample container, dismantled by the astronauts will be sent to scientists on Earth. Padalka and Malenchenko also installed struts remote workstation on the docking bay "Pierce."
Hatch station was closed at 01:28, Russian cosmonauts spent in space 5 hours 50 minutes. Apart Padalka and Malenchenko on the ISS are now NASA astronauts Joseph Aqaba and Sanita Williams, representative of the Japanese space agency Akihiko Hoshide and another Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Revin. EVA was for ISS second this year. The first output of the Russian program in February, it carried cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko.
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