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NASA, Discovery: first spacewalk completed

Cape Canaveral, USA - Installed last solar panels' section carried by the shuttle

Installed on the ISS the last section, Starboard 6, of the solar array carried by the shuttle. The first of the three scheduled spacewalks has been successfully completed with cosmonauts Steve Swanson and Richard Arnold remaining in open Space for about 6 hours, while their colleagues operated the robotic arm. The spacewalkers duty was to deploy the solar panels, plug in power and data transmission...

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Rome, Italy, 03/20/2009 12:38
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