Cosmonauts prepare for moving docking module from ISS
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February 18, 2012, Saturday
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A pair of Russian cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday to prepare for the removal of a Russian docking module due to be flown into the atmosphere for incineration next year.
Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov worked outside the station during a six-hour-plus spacewalk. Their first task was to move one of two 14-meter Stela cargo booms from the outside of Pirs, a Russian docking module that has been part of the US$100 billion space station since 2001. Pirs is expected to be removed from the station in July 2013 to make way for a new Russian multipurpose laboratory module named Nauka.
Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov worked outside the station during a six-hour-plus spacewalk. Their first task was to move one of two 14-meter Stela cargo booms from the outside of Pirs, a Russian docking module that has been part of the US$100 billion space station since 2001. Pirs is expected to be removed from the station in July 2013 to make way for a new Russian multipurpose laboratory module named Nauka.
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