Astronauts in second spacewalk

Two US astronauts have floated outside the international space station to help fold up a solar wing and kick-start a rotating joint that will help track the sun.

Astronauts in second spacewalk

Two US astronauts have floated outside the international space station to help fold up a solar wing and kick-start a rotating joint that will help track the sun.

Atlantis astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson spent the first two hours of their scheduled 6-hour spacewalk yesterday helping to put the 35-metre solar wing away in its storage box.

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