• Two Russian space agency Roscosmos’ cosmonauts have successfully carried out the 217th spacewalk for International Space Station’s support, maintenance and upgrade.
• The spacewalk, fourth for 2019, was done by Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin and lasted six hours and one minute.
• This was Commander Kononenko’s fifth spacewalk and the first-ever for Ovchinin.
• The cosmonauts retrieved science experiments, install handrails on the Russian segment of the complex, and conduct maintenance on the orbiting laboratory.
• Roscosmos State Space Corporation:
• Formation: 25 February 1992
• Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
• Administrator: Dmitry Rogozin
• Parent organization: The Russian government
• It is responsible for the wide range and types of space flights and cosmonautics programs for the Russian Federation.