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Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS

Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS

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 …

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