Russian cosmonauts finish space walk, return to ISS
09:37, 4 August 2011
KOROLEV, Moscow region. August 4. KAZINFORM Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyayev fulfilled practically all of their tasks during their space walk and returned to the International Space Station (ISS).
Mission Control Centre spokesman Valery Lyndin told Itar-Tass that they had returned to the station and closed the hatches at 01:13 Moscow time.
The space walk began at 18:51 Moscow time on August 3 and lasted more than six hours.
The other ISS crewmembers - Andrei Borisenko of Russia, astronauts Ronald Garan and Michael Fossum of NASA, and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of Japan - are waiting for them in the Poisk (MIM-2) module and in the American segment; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass