Cosmonauts set a record as they spruce up the space station
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 19:00
in Astronomy & Space
Two Russian cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station on Friday to set up power and data cables for a new research laboratory scheduled to arrive in December. Flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin opened the hatch on the station's Pirs airlock at 10:36 a.m.