Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Max Suraev completed the first spacewalk of the Expedition 22 mission at 10:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 14. Kotov and Suraev conducted the spacewalk which lasted five hours and 44 minutes. During the spacewalk, the two cosomonauts prepared handrails, cabling, antennae and docking targets to give the module full-fledged docking capabilities.
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