TWO ASTRONAUTS ARE space walking for the first time to carry out the first maintenance on the International Space Station in more than a year.
American astronaut Reid Wiseman and German spaceman Alexander Gerst ventured out outside ISS this morning to move a broken pump into its proper storage location.
US based space walks were curtailed in July 2013 after an Italian astronaut nearly drowned because of a flooded helmet.
NASA solved the problem with the suit’s water-cooling system but then concern arose over the spacesuit batteries. New batteries arrived late last month making today’s 260 miles high mission possible.
The 780-pound pump being moved today is the size of a double-door refrigerator and has been in temporary storage since last December.
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