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Russian cosmonauts from ISS crew complete spacewalk, return to station

They spent more than seven hours in extravehicular activities

KOROLYOV, June 20 /ITAR-TASS/. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Skvortsov have accomplished the tasks of a spacewalk under the program of the Russian segment of the International Space Station and returned aboard.

"The cosmonauts have returned to the Station and closed the hatches," an official at the Flight Control Center outside Moscow told Itar-Tass.

They spent more than seven hours in extravehicular activities (the spacewalk began at 18:10, Moscow time, on Thursday).

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