In the past time after work in space aboard the International Space Station returned Maksim Shur, Alexander Samokutyayev. Russian cosmonauts returned to the airlock compartment “Pierce” after 4 hours of work in open space. Output expected to be completed in 6 hours 15 minutes.
The Russians in the open space had to perform routine tasks faster time, the “Interfax”. Outside the station they worked in Russian spacesuits “Orlan-MK”, releasing the outer surface of the ISS by the end of their term and functions.
For Maxim Suraeva and Alexander Samokutyaeva it was the second spacewalks during their stellar career and fortieth in the 15-year history of the ISS.
Astronauts dismantled and threw EVA radiometric complex RC-21-8, removed the protective cover from the scientific equipment Expose-R (exposure obraztsovorganicheskih and biological materials in the open space), a mechanical cutter cut and thrown into space narrowly focused antenna and auto-tracking 2ASF1-1 2ASF1-2.
In addition, they took swabs from the windows in order to assess the influence of microflora on the failure of the material surface of the station, as well as conducted photography plating station.
At the station the Russians to insure woman-cosmonaut Yelena Serova, American astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore, a European astronaut Alexander Gerst.
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