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[b]Cosmonauts finish record-breaking spacewalk[/b] Expedition 54 commander Alexander Misurkin and flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station lasting 8 hours and 13 minutes on Friday (Feb. 2). It is the longest Russian spacewalk in history, breaking the previous record of 8 hours and 7 minutes that Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy set Dec. 27, 2013, on a spacewalk during Expedition 38. The two cosmonauts opened the hatch to the station's Pirs docking compartment to begin the spacewalk at 10:34 a.m. EST (1534 GMT). They re-entered the airlock and closed the hatch at 6:47 p.m. EST (2347 GMT). During the record-breaking spacewalk, Misurkin and Shkaplerov installed an electronics and telemetry box for the high gain antenna on the Zvezda service module to enhance communications between Russian flight controllers on the ground and the Russian segment on the station. The antenna system appears to be working normally. It was the 207th spacewalk in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance, the fourth in Misurkin’s career, and the second for Shkaplerov. It is the fifth-longest spacewalk in spaceflight history.
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