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December 28, 2013

Russian cosmonauts Kotov and Ryazansky complete ISS spacewalk
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 29, 2013
Two Russian cosmonauts who last month carried the Olympic torch into open space for the first time finished a spacewalk on Saturday to replace equipment on the outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk began on Friday afternoon and lasted 8 hours 10 minutes. The cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, installed equipment on the hull of the space station including high-resolution cameras to photograph the earth and a foothold for use in future spacewalks. They also detached an ... read more

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