Russian cosmonauts to go on spacewalk![]() August 20, 2012 - 11:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko, who are on the International Space Station (ISS), will on Monday, August 20 go on a spacewalk to carry out a number of maintenance tasks, according to the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center. “Padalka and Malenchenko are expected to open the hatches at 18:40 Moscow Time [1440 GMT] and will return to the ISS at 01:05 Moscow Time on August 21 [2105 GMT Monday],” RIA Novosti quoted a Mission Control Center spokesman as saying. The cosmonauts will upgrade the space station’s exterior and bring inside a number of specimens from a docking module to later send them to Earth for research, the spokesman said. ![]() ![]() Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |