Russian cosmonauts complete seven-hour spacewalk
STORY: Russian cosmonauts complete seven-hour spacewalk
DATELINE: May 4, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:07
LOCATION: Moscow
CATEGORY: SCIENCE
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1. various of cosmonauts conducting spacewalk (Source: Roscosmos)
STORYLINE:
Two Russian cosmonauts finished their second spacewalk this year from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, according to a live broadcast by Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos.
Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin exited the Poisk module at 11:00 p.m. Moscow time (2000 GMT) on Wednesday and started their extravehicular activity.
The main task of their seven-hour-and-11-minute spacewalk was to relocate an airlock chamber from the Rassvet module to the Nauka module, using a robotic arm controlled by another Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev inside the ISS.
The cosmonauts encountered some difficulties when trying to connect the chamber to Nauka due to a misalignment of docking units. They managed to fix the problem with the help of ground specialists and successfull
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