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.

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