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Fri, 07/11/2008 - 12:21
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Russia cosmonauts complete repair of their Soyuz craft
KOROLEV (Moscow region), July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian cosmonauts have fulfilled the task of their first extravehicular activity - the removal of a pyrobolt from the lock linking the descent module with the onboard systems section of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Commander of the International Space Station Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko completed the removal of the pyrobolt at 02:50, Moscow time, after which put it inspecial container.
A failure of a pyrobolt separating spacecraft's modules caused the ballistic landing of Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 capsule in April this year, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Anatoly Perminov, saidearlier.
On April 19, the Soyuz-TMA-11 capsule, carrying US astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, and Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon from the International Space Station, made a bumpy re-entry, landing 420 kilometres (260 miles) off-target in the steppes of northernKazakhstan.
"The main cause has been established," Anatoly Perminov said after an investigation. "One of the five separating pyrobolts failed and the separation [of the landing capsule from the equipment bay] occurred later,when the landing capsule entered the plasma," the official noted.
Commander of the International Space Station Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko completed the removal of the pyrobolt at 02:50, Moscow time, after which put it inspecial container.
A failure of a pyrobolt separating spacecraft's modules caused the ballistic landing of Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 capsule in April this year, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Anatoly Perminov, saidearlier.
On April 19, the Soyuz-TMA-11 capsule, carrying US astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, and Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon from the International Space Station, made a bumpy re-entry, landing 420 kilometres (260 miles) off-target in the steppes of northernKazakhstan.
"The main cause has been established," Anatoly Perminov said after an investigation. "One of the five separating pyrobolts failed and the separation [of the landing capsule from the equipment bay] occurred later,when the landing capsule entered the plasma," the official noted.
