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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his American colleague Shane Kimbrough completed a six-hour spacewalk Sunday as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said. The astronauts started Sunday’s spacewalk picking up where they left off Wednesday, when a string of problems prevented them from unrolling the high-tech solar panel.
Astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Wednesday to outfit the International Space Station with powerful, new solar panels to handle the growing electrical demands from upcoming visitors. NASA put extra safety precautions in place as French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough worked on the station's primary power grid, to avoid an electrical shock.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough work in the weightlessness of space to install a new solar panel on the International Space Station, a complex and very physical operation that is expected to last about six and a half hours. IMAGES
A Soyuz-MS 02 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station. The spacecraft is carrying Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, Kazakh cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who will spend four months aboard the ISS to conduct experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science before returning home in February.
Two Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalks outside the International Space Station to transfer and install an experiment airlock to the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
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