Spacewalking astronauts wrap up battery improvements
January 19, 2020
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of spacewalking astronauts successfully wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall.
NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch installed the last new battery in a set of six launched to the orbiting lab in September. They also removed two old batteries in their second spacewalk in under a week to upgrade the station's solar power grid.
This marked the women's third spacewalk together. They conducted the world's first all-female spacewalk last October, replacing a failed charging device that...
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