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Cosmonauts begin six-hour space walk from ISS
Nov 15, 2010, 15:49 GMT
Moscow - Two Russian cosmonauts from the International Space Station (ISS) began a six-hour space walk on Monday, the Interfax news agency reported.
The pair - Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Skripotschka - will conduct tests and collect surface samples, with the expedition filmed by a video camera.
The cosmonauts left the ISS after a 25-minute delay due to problems with pressure equalization, the flight control centre in Moscow said.
They are wearing new computerised 'Orlan' spacesuits on the mission, which is currently around 360 kilometres above earth and home to three cosmonauts and a US astronaut.
Yurchikhin has completed four previous space walks, whilst it is the first for Skripotschka.
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