ISS astronauts complete six-hour spacewalk to install solar panels

ISS astronauts complete six-hour spacewalk to install solar panels

Successful International Space Station installation followed an attempt on Wednesday that ran into several problems

French and American astronauts have completed a six-hour spacewalk as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), Nasa said.

“It is a huge team effort each time and couldn’t be happier to return with @astro_kimbrough,” Frenchman Thomas Pesquet tweeted on Sunday, referring to his American colleague Shane Kimbrough. Pesquet is with the European Space Agency, Kimbrough with Nasa.

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June 21, 2021 at 02:29AM

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