Shuttle astronauts take final spacewalk

Two spacewalking astronauts attached the last pieces of scientific equipment to the outside of the space station’s new lab today and packed away a broken gyroscope for next week’s return journey home.

Two spacewalking astronauts attached the last pieces of scientific equipment to the outside of the space station’s new lab today and packed away a broken gyroscope for next week’s return journey home.

It was the third and final spacewalk for Atlantis’ astronauts, who arrived at the international space station nearly a week ago.

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