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12.05.2013, 09:19 clock | AFP, dpa

ISS after successful repair fully functional again (Source: Picture Alliance / EPA Nasa handout)

In an hour-long outdoor use in all two U.S. astronauts have sealed a leak in the cooling system of the International Space Station. Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn had replaced a control box, a pump, said the U.S. space agency NASA on Saturday.

“No leak, we bring Tom & Chris back in,” the Canadian ISS Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted enthusiastically. The Russian ISS flight director Vladimir Soloviev had classified the incident as “very serious damage”.

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Approximately five and a half hours took the risky outdoor use. For both astronauts, it was always the third “space walk” – the first two they had performed together

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In November 2012, a leak had occurred in the cooling system. Then installed two ISS crew members with an outside use a bypass line.

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