Thursday, August 30, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: US, Japanese Astronauts Space Walk to Conduct ISS Maintenance

Asia - Voice of America
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US, Japanese Astronauts Space Walk to Conduct ISS Maintenance
Aug 30th 2012, 17:58

U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide are conducting a more than six-hour space walk to conduct maintenance work outside the International Space Station. Among the tasks they are performing while in space, the astronauts will replace a faulty power relay, rig power cables for a Russian laboratory module due next year and replace a failing robotic arm camera. This is the fifth space walk for Williams, a NASA flight engineer. Hoshide is conducting his first ...

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