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Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed camera from the exterior of the orbiting complex. Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineer Alexey Zubritsky, both with Russia’s federal space corporation Roscosmos, marked the end of their first extravehicular …

Roscosmos Spacewalk 64 – YouTube Watch On Two cosmonauts will conduct a spacewalk today (Oct. 16), and you can watch the action live. Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) today at about 12:50 p.m. EDT (1650 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk that’s expected to last 5.5 hours. …

It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. The mission was the first and only spaceflight of Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 group of astronauts, who had been disqualified from …