Two Russian astronauts on Monday left the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-hour-long spacewalk, dpa reported. Alexander Misurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin opened the station's outer door at 5:31 pm (1331 GMT) and began maintenance work outside the station, the Russian mission control centre said. Among other things, the two astronauts will remove an instrument panel, replace a fluid flow control panel and install clamps for future power cables for a new laboratory module, US space agency NASA said. It is the sixth spacewalk for Yurchikhin and the first for Misurkin, who only arrived at the ISS in March.
