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First Cut: Spacewalk to fix solar wings

Source: ABC News
Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:42 AEDT
Expires: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:42 AEDT

Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Stephen Bowen, from NASA's Endeavour shuttle, have free-floated 340km above Earth to start fixing the International Space Station's solar wings.

Tags: science-and-technology, astronomy, spacecraft, united-states

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