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 SHOTLIST: 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