Cosmonauts set out on a spacewalk
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 18:30
in Astronomy & Space
International Space Station Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency donned their spacesuits and exited the Pirs airlock to install new communications equipment on the Zvezda service module. The spacewalk, a first for both of them, lasted almost 7 and a half hours.