Astronauts set spacewalk record

In what was billed Nasa's longest spacewalk, two astronauts have re-arranged the outside of the International Space Station to make room for an Italian cargo carrier.

Astronauts set spacewalk record

In what was billed Nasa's longest spacewalk, two astronauts have re-arranged the outside of the International Space Station to make room for an Italian cargo carrier.

The excursion by shuttle crew members Jim Voss and Susan Helms was four minutes short of nine hours and entailed slow, deliberate work with cables and connectors - "a jungle of wires" as Voss called it.

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