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Astronauts install new solar arrays during spacewalk

Shane Kimbrough, Thomas Pesquet venture outside International Space Station

Astronauts conduct spacewalk to install solar arrays on ISS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronauts have finished unfurling a new pair of solar panels outside the International Space Station.

It was the third spacewalk in just over a week for NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and France’s Thomas Pesquet. They floated out Friday to add the second in a series of powerful new solar wings that should keep the space station running the rest of this decade.

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The move should have been done in two spacewalks, but spacesuit and other problems hampered last week’s effort.

NASA added a third spacewalk to connect and unfurl the second solar wing. This time, everything went smoothly.


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