Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazan spent in the open space on Friday, December 27, 8:00 and seven minutes, the official website of NASA. Cats and Ryazan broke the record stay in space in Russian spacesuits “Orlan MK».
previous record was set in August 2013 and cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin Misurkin Alexander, he was 7 hours, 29 minutes.
Kotov and Ryazan made for the sixth year for the Russian mission to the ISS spacewalk. Kotova for spacewalk was the fifth for the Ryazan – second. In November 2013 the astronauts have already worked together in the open space when carried the Olympic torch.
During the Russian cosmonauts had, in particular, set the camera high and medium resolution from the Canadian company UrtheCast. After installing and connecting cameras with them failed to communicate. In this regard, the astronauts were instructed to dismantle the camera and bring them to the ISS for inspection. Because hitch with cameras of the tasks scheduled for the last 2013 spacewalk, was not implemented.
At the time ofKotova and Ryazan into space aboard the ISS were Mikhail Tyurin, U.S. astronauts Michael Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata Japanese.
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