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Feb 29 '12
expose-the-light: Going Boom Photograph courtesy NASA Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov are seen during a spacewalk on February 16 as they work on maintenance and upgrades for the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 15-minute spacewalk, the pair worked on a telescoping boom—used to move massive components outside the station—that’s being prepared for replacement next year. The cosmonauts also installed a new science experiment on the outside of the station and collected a sample from the insulation on the Zvezda service module to check for any biological contamination.

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Going Boom

Photograph courtesy NASA

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov are seen during a spacewalk on February 16 as they work on maintenance and upgrades for the International Space Station.

During the six-hour, 15-minute spacewalk, the pair worked on a telescoping boom—used to move massive components outside the station—that’s being prepared for replacement next year.

The cosmonauts also installed a new science experiment on the outside of the station and collected a sample from the insulation on the Zvezda service module to check for any biological contamination.

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