Astronauts finish space cabling job

Nasa astronauts have successfully completed their third spacewalk in just over a week to finish an extensive cable job at the International Space Station.

The work — involving nearly 244m of cable over three spacewalks — is needed for new crew capsules commissioned by Nasa. A pair of docking ports will fly up later this year, followed by the capsules themselves, with astronauts aboard, in 2017.

American astronauts Terry Virts and Butch Wilmore had 122m of power and data cable to route yesterday. They successfully routed 111m on their first two excursions, on February 21 and last Wednesday.