Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev’s spacewalk, originally expected to last for six hours, began at 1600 GMT on Tuesday.Roscosmos has ruled out a manufacturing defect causing the 2 mm-wide hole found in August.After more than five hours of a rare broadcast - showing the cosmonauts in space trying to cut through an insulate of the spacecraft with a knife - they uncovered the external part of the hole, originally discovered in the capsule’s internal covering, and took samples of the exterior insulation. Two Russian cosmonauts have taken samples of their capsule’s exterior in the sixth hour of a spacewalk seeking to resolve the mystery of a small hole found in the craft docked at the International Space Station, a live broadcast by Russian Wholesale floor insulation space agency Roscosmos showed early on Wednesday.The puncture has since been sealed, halting the oxygen leak

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