Spacewalks and Astronauts: Recent Updates from the ISS

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Source: Washington Examiner
Spacewalks and Astronauts: Recent Updates from the ISS
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Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station, relocating an experiment airlock from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module. During the spacewalk, they also released approximately 11 pounds of used hardware, which harmlessly burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. The relocated airlock is intended to deploy Russian experiment pallets and satellites from inside the Nauka module.

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