Cosmonauts Finish Spacewalk
Department:
The International Space Station
Teaser:
"Two Russian cosmonauts have accidentally lost a tool in space while spacewalking outside the International Space Station early Tuesday."
Source:
SPACE.com Download time: Jul 27 2010 7:45 AM ET
A lost tool and washer marred an otherwise routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station Tuesday.
Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko spent six hours and forty-two minutes outside the orbiting lab replacing a broken camera and installing cables on a Russian room to help outfit it as a new docking port.
At one point - around 1:45 a.m. EDT (0645 GMT) – the spacewalkers accidentally lost an unidentified object that was visible spinning slowly as it floated farther and farther away from their perch on the side of the space station. [Photo of the lost tool floating away]
"What is it?" one cosmonaut asked in Russian.
"It looks like it's a handle or an attachment fixture – yes, it's an attachment fixture," the other cosmonaut replied, according to an English translation.…
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