Maintenance task push astronauts outside the ISS

Two Russian cosmonauts began work week, Monday, cleans the windows of the International Space Station, Sobha in space at an altitude of 400 kilometers of land.

And closed the station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko, unit door station Pearce 19:51 GMT, after it ended the nearly six-hour spacewalk to install new equipment, and carry out maintenance tasks.

The astronauts finished their mission ahead of schedule half an hour, after that completed their first task quickly for them to install equipment, help the crew of the International Space Station to perform maneuvers outside the station.

And then supplemented with a number of private testing maintenance operations, and pictures of the Russian segment of the ISS, and cleared and cleaned a skylight windows of the station that the accumulation of exhaust left by visiting spaceships to the station over the years.

Devan Bulc Said, a specialist in the spacewalk tasks, in the recording aired Aviation Administration and Space Administration (NASA) before the mission, "I have developed cleaning tool ... similar to what you use to clean your car lights when the dust."

The task of the spacewalk by the two Russian space pioneer was the fourth carried out in the International Space Station this year, the tenth Padalka, who stayed in space more than anyone else, and the second for Kornienko outside the station.