Astronauts Complete 6 Hour Spacewalk

from Reuters

The two crewmembers aboard the International Space Station successfully completed an extended 6-hour spacewalk early Friday to fix equipment and retrieve science experiments from the outside of the complex.

The spacewalk was marred only by the loss of a 12-inch metal foot restraint adapter that had been on the Russian telescoping work boom.

Vinogradov and crewmate Jeffrey Williams had finished their work on the Russian parts of the station and did not need the device for the remaining task

The men also retrieved a contamination monitoring device and a science experiment, both of which will be sent back to Earth for analysis.