New Delhi: Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA have completed the first of two power upgrade spacewalks on January 6, 2017.
During the six-hour-and-thirty-two-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connections for three of the six new lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station, says NASA.
NASA Television provided live coverage of the spacewalk. And just in case you missed it, here's a video of the two astronauts performing their tasks outside the station:
Video credit: NASA
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