Tuesday, June 13, 2006
CAPE CANAVERAL - The clock was marking for the two spacewalkers to end up their maintenance jobs on the international space station. All was finished apart from for put back a video camera on a transport platform used to construct the course outpost.
Last week, NASA controllers awarded with their Russian counterparts about whether to call off that task or proceed as planned and risk running out of time. They decided to go ahead after the Russians decided to tack on an extra 50 minutes for spacewalking, allowing the crew members to successfully finish their actual tasks
The spacewalk took 6 1/2-hours, longer than predictable, but nowhere near had the evidence of eight hours and 56 minutes set in 2001
Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov said at 6:48 p.m. EDT as he and USA trip engineer Jeff Williams exited the Russian side of the station in their bulky suits while the settlement soared more than 220 miles above Earth.
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