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Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk To Trouble-Shoot Soyuz Spacecraft, Removing Suspect Pyro Bolt

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

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Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, the International Space Station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, ventured outside the space station to remove an explosive bolt from their docked Soyuz space vehicle. The pyrotechnic bolt will be examined back on Earth, as experts in Moscow attempt to figure out why two Soyuz landings have been marred with ballistic descents and partial separations of components on the spacecraft. In one rough Soyuz landing, a South Korean and a Russian suffered back injuries. Volkov and…

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