ISS flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Max Suraev completed the first spacewalk of the Expedition 22 mission at 9:49 a.m. CST Thursday.
The two cosmonauts prepared the Mini-Research Module 2, known as Poisk, for future Russian dockings. Suraev and commander Jeff Williams will be the first to use the new port when they relocate their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda service module on Jan. 21.
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This was the third spacewalk for Kotov, who made two spacewalks in 2007 as an Expedition 15 flight engineer, and the first for Suraev.
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