Russian cosmonauts make spacewalk at International Space Station

A cosmonaut took a test ride on the end of a European robot arm during a six-hour 35-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday amid work to install three micrometeoroid debris shields and relocate a work platform. Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin installed the debris shields over two areas on the Russian Rassvet module where an experiment airlock and radiator panel had been mounted for several years. Both were moved to the Nauka multi-purpose lab module during spacewalks earlier this year. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 10)