Space walk News
Prior to embarking on their spacewalk, UAE astronaut Al-Neyadi and NASA Flight Engineer Bowen underwent a two-hour oxygen purge to eliminate nitrogen from their bodies.
NASA astronaut and ESA astronaut finish 1st solar arrays installation outside International Space Station
The new iROSA was delivered to the ISS by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in June
The first pair of solar arrays wAS deployed in December 2000
The primary device failed on Saturday, leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory to depend on a backup system to route commands to its solar power system, radiators, cooling loops and other equipment.
Spacewalks usually last about six and a half hours, but Friday's would be "abbreviated" due to the late start and would last about four hours.
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