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Thu, 08/04/2011 - 08:00
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Russian cosmonauts finish space walk, return to ISS.

KOROPEV, Moscow region, August 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian cosmonauts
Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyayev fulfilled practically all of
their tasks during their space walk and returned to the International
Space Station (ISS).
Mission Control Centre spokesman Valery Lyndin told Itar-Tass that
they had returned to the station and closed the hatches at 01:13 Moscow
time.
The space walk began at 18:51 Moscow time on August 3 and lasted more
than six hours.
The other ISS crewmembers - Andrei Borisenko of Russia, astronauts
Ronald Garan and Michael Fossum of NASA, and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of
Japan - were waiting for them in the Poisk (MIM-2) module and in the
American segment.

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