Reuters - Friday, November 9, 7:59 p.m.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The commander of the International Space Station (ISS) and Russian flight engineer made an exit in Within a period from half past six, they used to complete a series of tasks postponed during the recent mission of the shuttle Discovery.
The shuttle returned to Earth Wednesday after a mission that lasted 15 days. The astronauts delivered a new station airlock so that laboratories from Europe and Japan can be connected to one another starting next month.
An emergency repair done on one of the solar wings, which was torn when she was redeployed, prompted NASA to abandon a spacewalk needed to prepare the shuttle docking port to the new module, called Harmony.
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko
, flight engineer and ISS Commander Peggy Whiston had to do this work even while Discovery was docked to the ISS, and finally did that on Friday.
, flight engineer and ISS Commander Peggy Whiston had to do this work even while Discovery was docked to the ISS, and finally did that on Friday.
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