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Successful spacewalk of ISS crew

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and US astronaut John Phillips successfully completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

The spacewalk was devoted to tending science experiments and maintenance tasks. Krikalev and Phillips were tasked with removing the Russian Biorisk experiment, which houses bacteria, and retrieving a suitcase-sized Japanese experiment which exposed various materials to the space junk, micro-meteors and radiation that zip through the harsh external environment. The pair also had to remove the Matroshka experiment – a human-like torso with layers of dosimeters intended to measure the radiation astronauts are exposed to while spacewalking.

The pair then installed a video camera to the hull of the Zvezda service module which will be used to aid the docking of the European Space Agency’s uncrewed cargo ship, the Jules Verne. The first launch of that craft is scheduled for early 2006.

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