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Discovery: completed the third spacewalk

Cape Canaveral, USA - Expedition 18 to the end. Expedition 19 scheduled to take off on Thursday

Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold completed yesterday the third and last scheduled spacewalk, managing to fulfill all the requested tasks. Anyway they couldn't fix the cargo carrier attachment system that was badly mounted in the previous spacewalk (see AVIONEWS). While engineers are trying to spot the problem, mission decided to delay the installation of a similar device. With this spacewalk International...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1101751
Rome, Italy, 03/24/2009 14:17
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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