Russian astronauts begin space walk
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Two Russian astronauts have started a space walk that would last for at least five hours and 55 minutes on Monday, said the mission control center outside Moscow.
![A Russian astronaut wearing Russia's advanced Orlan-MK spacesuits works outside the docking module at the International Space Station (ISS), on Nov. 15, 2010. Two Russian astronauts have started a space walk that would last for at least five hours and 55 minutes on Monday, said the mission control center outside Moscow. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20101116/000cf1bdd03f0e4c5a3c22.jpg "A Russian astronaut wearing Russia's advanced Orlan-MK spacesuits works outside the docking module at the International Space Station (ISS), on Nov. 15, 2010. Two Russian astronauts have started a space walk that would last for at least five hours and 55 minutes on Monday, said the mission control center outside Moscow. [Xinhua]") |
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A Russian astronaut wearing Russia's advanced Orlan-MK spacesuits works outside the docking module at the International Space Station (ISS), on Nov. 15, 2010. Two Russian astronauts have started a space walk that would last for at least five hours and 55 minutes on Monday, said the mission control center outside Moscow. [Xinhua] |
The space walk started some 25 minutes later than scheduled due to a longer-than-planned equalization of pressure in the airlock, news agencies reported.
This was the fifth space walk for 51-year-old Fyodor Yurchikhin but a maiden one for Oleg Skripochka, aged 41. Yurchikhin already completed a space walk in July this year with another Russian astronaut Mikhail Kornienko.
The major mission of the spacewalk was to install a multipurpose working station on the Zvezda service module for later experiments.
