Russian spacewalk ends with antenna facing the wrong way

A record-setting Russian spacewalk ended with a critical antenna facing the wrong way outside the International Space Station. Cosmonauts Aleksandr Misurkin, 40, and Anton Shkaplerov, 45, had to venture outside to swap out an old comms module with a new communications rod. But when they installed the antenna, designed to improve comms with Russia's Mission Control in Moscow, it was left facing 180 degrees from its intended position. The trouble arose toward the end of a spacewalk lasting more than eight hours - the longest ever by Russians and the fifth longest overall. Nasa's Mission Control has reported the antenna is still working, but Russian space officials are now assessing whether the device needs re-positioning.