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Astronauts on the ISS ready for their spacewalks

Houston, USA - The Antares rocket and the Cygnus spacecraft return into the hangar, waiting for their launch in January

Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins continue preparing for a series of spacewalks to remove a failed pump module in one of the two cooling loops of the ISS and install a spare pump module. American space agency NASA managers have planned for the first spacewalk to begin Saturday 21, the second on Monday 23 and if necessary a third spacewalk on Christmas day. Mastracchio has six...

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Rome, Italy, 12/19/2013 14:35
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