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ISS astronauts take second spacewalk
Thursday September 06, 2012 08:55:00 AM,
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 Sunita Williams completes spacewalk outside
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Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut
Akihiko Hoshide completed almost a record long spacewalk outside
the International Space Station (ISS), reported NASA.
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Moscow: Indian-origin
astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide began a
spacewalk Wednesday in another attempt to install a power unit on
the International Space Station, RIA Novosti reported.
The operation was broadcast live on NASA TV.
Their main task was to complete the installation of a spare power
unit on the station's truss, which caused problems during an Aug
30 spacewalk.
Williams and Hoshide built some improvised tools to assist with
their installation tasks, NASA said.
The spacewalk was scheduled to last 6.5 hours and included other
tasks postponed from last week's excursion if the installation
task is completed on time.
Last time, NASA Flight Engineer Williams and Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Hoshide spent eight hours and
17 minutes in space, but failed to install a new Main Bus
Switching Unit (MBSU) on the ISS's s-zero truss as they had
difficulties driving the bolts to secure the equipment.
The MBSU is a heavy component used to relay power from the
station's solar arrays to its systems.
Williams and Hoshide's previous spacewalk was the third longest in
history.
The longest of eight hours and 56 minutes was carried out by US
astronauts Susan Helms and James Voss in 2001.
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