Saturday, January 22, 2011

Two Cosmonaut in Space Success

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MOSCOW, KOMPAS.com - Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed a number of duty while carrying out space exploration first undertaken by personnel of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011, said Russian Mission Control Center. Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka spent five and a half hours in space and re-entered the ISS on Friday (01/21/2011) night. The cosmonauts installed equipment and high speed data transmission service on the Russian space named "Zvezda", and turn off, then disconnect and attach syringe plasma television cameras in a small study room on the ISS's MIM Russia. Kondratyev and Skripochka wearing Russian spacesuits new property named Orlan-MK which is equipped with a digital computer during a mission. ISS personnel now also consists of Russian Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly and Catherine Coleman and the European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli.

ANT, AFP, AP