02.02.18 - Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin and Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Space Agency 'Roscosmos' have completed a spacewalk lasting 8 hours and 13 minutes. Russian Extravehicular Activity [EVA] #44: Alexander Misurkin [EV1] and Anton Shkaplerov [EV2] performed RS EVA #44 with a Phased Elapsed Time [PET] of 08:13' the longest Russian spacewalk, breaking the previous record of 8 hours and 7 minutes that Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy set 27.12.2013, on a spacewalk during Expedition 38. During the EVA, the cosmonauts removed and replaced the [OHA] antenna high frequency receiver on Service Module [SM] aft. This is dedicated to Alexei Leonov [30.05.1934 – 11.10.2019] and all MKC cosmonauts.
