Russian Spacewalkers Defer Prime Task Outside Space Station

HOUSTON — Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev were forced to abandon the top objective of their scheduled 6-hr. Aug. 3 spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) – the transfer of a cargo boom that was to set the stage for the arrival of a Multipurpose Laboratory Module...

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