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Russian Cosmonauts Complete Historic Spacewalk at ISS

10/17/2025

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On October 16, 2025, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy completed a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacewalk began at 1:10 p.m. EDT and lasted 6 hours and 9 minutes.
They installed a Molecular Beam Epitaxy experiment for semiconductor materials and discarded an outdated high-definition camera.
The cosmonauts also cleaned a window on the Zvezda service module before re-entering the ISS.
This marked their first extravehicular activity together and the 276th spacewalk in ISS history.

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On October 16, 2025, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy completed a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacewalk began at 1:10 p.m. EDT and lasted 6 hours and 9 minutes.
They installed a Molecular Beam Epitaxy experiment for semiconductor materials and discarded an outdated high-definition camera.
The cosmonauts also cleaned a window on the Zvezda service module before re-entering the ISS.
This marked their first extravehicular activity together and the 276th spacewalk in ISS history.