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[b]Cosmonauts complete first Expedition 24 spacewalk[/b] Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 5:53 a.m. CDT Tuesday. The cosmonauts successfully outfitted the Rassvet module for the Kurs automated rendezvous system, as well as routed and mated command and data handling cables on the Zvezda service module and Zarya functional cargo block modules. A video camera was removed and replaced on the aft end of Zvezda, which the ground then successfully tested. The old camera was safely jettisoned by the cosmonauts away from the International Space Station. During the spacewalk, two objects were detected floating away from the station. One was tentatively identified as a cable clamp, left outside the station from a previous Russian spacewalk. That object and another, not conclusively identified, both departed well below the vicinity of the complex and pose no threat to the orbiting laboratory.
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