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Russian Astronauts Successfully Conclude Space Station Science Spacewalk

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
August 19, 2014
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Russian Astronauts Successfully Conclude Space Station Science Spacewalk
Russian Astronauts Successfully Conclude Space Station Science Spacewalk
NASA

During a 5- hour, 11-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on August 18, Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency deployed a nanosatellite and completed work on other science hardware and experiments on the Russian segment of the ISS.
It was the 181st spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.

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