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Experts of the Russian Mission Control have congratulated Russian cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Sergei Treshchev on a successful completion of works in the outer space.
The space walk took the spacemen 5 hours 22 minutes instead of 6 hours. The spacemen installed two new radio aerials on the space station, mounted anti-meteorite screens on the Russian Zvezda-module and prepared the station for the docking with the cargo space vehicle scheduled for September 22nd, 2002.
"A malfunction in a valve of the system responsible for pressure equalisation between the spaceship and the lock- chamber where the spacemen were account for the delay that occurred during the space walk," said cosmonaut Alexander Alexandrov, the head of the test flight service. All defects were repaired.
(Xinhua News Agency August 27, 2002)
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