Astronauts repaired outside the ISS space station's escape ... - Epoch

flight engineers from NASA, Christopher Cassidy and Tom Marshburn made a spacewalk over five hours

Astronauts International Space Station (ISS) conducted a successful spacewalk more than five hours to repair an ammonia gas leak, NASA.

flight engineers at NASA, Tom Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy, of the ISS Expedition 35 number, which flies around the Earth, opened the control panel and pump replaced by an older component.

The team took 5 hours and 30 minutes to see that there was no escape of ammonia.

hike became the number 168 in the maintenance of the ISS and the third for both astronauts, already conducted two more for other missions.

Monday 35 completed the mission commanded by Canadian Chris Hadfield and along with Thomas Marschburn Russian Roman Romanenko and return to Earth. The three departed on March 13 on a Soyuz flight.

Expedition will start 36th, commanded by Russian Pavel Vinogradov, who will remain on board with Aleksandr Misurkin, both of Roscosmos, with engineer at NASA Cassidy, who starred in the walk yesterday.

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