Source:
03-11-2009 11:51
Special Report: Tech MaxMOSCOW, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian and U.S. cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) started a spacewalk on Tuesday, the Mission Control Center near Moscow said.
 |
| Russian and U.S. cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) started a spacewalk on Tuesday. |
The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov opened the station's hatches and launched extravehicular activities (EVA) at 7:22 p.m. Moscow time (1622 GMT) on Tuesday, a source with the Mission Control was cited as saying by the Itar-Tass news agency.
The spacewalk will last for five hours and 45 minutes, the report said.
The astronauts are expected to install and connect gadgets for the Expose-R experiment on the outer surface of the ISS.
They will also fulfill a number of technical missions, which they had no time to accomplish during their first spacewalk in December 2008.
-- Click for more news in Tech Max >>
Editor:Yang Jie
