ISS astronauts start spacewalk
MISSION CONTROL, November 7 - NASA astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev have started their spacewalk out of the International Space Station after an hour-long delay, a source at Mission Control in Korolyov near Moscow said Monday.
The source said Valery Tokarev, who is making a spacewalk for the first time, could not immediately locate the emergency pressure equalization valve inside the Quest lock chamber, meaning the chamber had to be resealed.
This marks the first time in two and a half years that astronauts have made a spacewalk wearing American EMU space suits.
The astronauts will carry out and launch an FPP probe, designed to monitor any build-up of static electricity at the station, and replace a rack for video cameras on the outer surface of the NODE module.
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