WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Two Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk from the International Space Station Monday to accomplish a number of maintenance tasks, officials said.
Veteran space walker Fyodor Yurchikhin and first-timer Oleg Skripochka worked about 6 1/2 hours while floating outside the space station, SPACE.com reported.
They installed a new staging ground for future spacewalks and finished off some routine maintenance tasks, kept from completing the list of intended projects only by a balky television camera that could not be secured in its new location, mission controllers said.
Russian space officials decided to postpone that job for a subsequent spacewalk as the cosmonauts were running out of time.
The space walkers are two of six crew members living aboard the space station. NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock is commanding the Expedition 25 mission, while Skripochka, Yurchikhin, cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Scott Kelly are serving as flight engineers.
