Russian astronauts back to ISS from spacewalk, mission accomplished
KOROLYOV, Moscow region. Jan 28 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky are back in the Pirs airlock chamber of the International Space Station (ISS) from an almost six-hour spacewalk, the Russian Mission Control Center told Interfax-AVN.
"The spacewalk has been successfully completed. The astronauts are back in the station," a center spokesman said.
The astronauts fully achieved their tasks: they installed Canadian UrtheCast high- and medium-resolution cameras on the exterior of the Zvezda service module, photographed connected cables, dismantled an adapter of the unit coupled to the Canadian robotic arm's platform outside of the Zarya functional and cargo module and carried it inside, and removed a container with ISS hull skin structural material, which had been exposed to space conditions for a long time.