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    • MOSCOW (AFP) Mar 28, 2005
     The Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut manning the International Space Station made a four and a half hour space walk Monday to fix radio antennae to the orbiter and manually launch a small science satellite, Russian ground control told AFP.

    It was the second time Russian Salizhan Sharipov and American Leroy Chiao had suited up to go outside the space station since they arrived on board in October last year.

    Russia's mission control centre in Korolyov, near Moscow, said the pair left the ISS at 0625 GMT and returned at 1055 GMT, an hour and a half earlier than planned because "they worked faster than expected," mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin.

    During their weightless expedition, the two installed radio equipment to enable the Automated Transfer Vehicle, a new, European-made supply vessel set for launch next year, to dock with the station.

    Sharipov also pushed into orbit a five-kilogramme (11-pound) Russian mini-satellite that is designed to circle the Earth for three months.

    "The satellite works. We have picked up its signal on Earth," Lyndin said.




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