Russian Spacewalk

International Space Station Expedition 36 flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency completed a 7-hour, 29-minute spacewalk at 3:05 p.m. PDT on Friday, August 16, the longest spacewalk in history conducted by a pair of Russian cosmonauts. The spacewalkers continued routing power and Ethernet cables for the future arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, and installed on the Poisk module a panel of experiments.

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NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk on ISS

Clad in U.S. spacesuits, Expedition 41 Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Oct. 7 to relocate a failed cooling pump and to install a power cable device designed to provide backup electrical capability to the stations rail car system. The spacewalk was the 182nd in support of station assembly and maintenance and the first for both Wiseman and Gerst.

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