Mir cosmonauts test hull-patching in five-hour spacewalk

Cosmonauts Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kaleri tested an open-space hull-patching procedure and inspected some wiring apparently blackened by a short circuit in an almost-five-hour spacewalk outside the Mir space station Friday. The extra-vehicular activity (EVA) was the first ever financed by a...

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