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Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopiev of the Russian agency Roskosmos successfully performed an outing in the space of seven hours and forty-five minutes to return to the surface of the International Space Station.
The short flight, which began yesterday at 18:00 Cairo time, was to check the safety of the space shuttle Soyuz on the space station before the crew of the 57th flight crew returned to Earth on 20 December after a period of time At six months, in addition to collecting samples of materials on the mysterious hole in the vehicle to find out why it happened, a Moscow official said that he can be sure 39; act of deliberate destruction with the aid of scissors or a knife after excluding the cause of a manufacturing error.
Astronauts who are preparing for the exit in space
Russian agency Roskosmos said the goal was to determine whether the grave hole, though small, was "2 milliels" on Earth or in space. This hole was discovered last August, two months after the last flight of the vehicle, during this period the astronauts could not inspect the hole from outside the station, but only from the inside.
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The pioneers during the mission
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The pioneers during the mission
During the process, described as "of unprecedented complexity", astronauts Oleg and Sergey struggled to cut insulation around the hole and produce a sample for analysis, but they eventually succeeded . , Have not been designed to be repaired in space, as there is no external fence so that pioneers can grasp it during the review process.
The pilots then took pictures and a video before laying new insulation on the area and returning to the surface of the space station. This exit in space was the fourth of Commander Kununenko and the second of Prokopiev..
The astronauts after their return to the station after the success of the mission
The Soyuz spacecraft is used to transport astronauts from the International Space Station from there, in a section that will not be used for the return journey of 3 astronauts from the station plateau to Earth on the 20th. December.
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