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Mike Wehner
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The International Space Station is, well, old. It's still working great and fulfilling the needs of NASA, Russia's Roscosmos, Japan's JAXA, and the European Space Agency, among others, but it's definitely not as cutting-edge as it once was. The groups responsible for maintaining the spacecraft have done a great job of keeping it up and running and filling it with new tools and instruments, but when it comes to upgrading things like the space station's power collection system, that means astronauts need to suit up and head out into the vacuum of space.
That's what NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover were working on Sunday. The pair of scientists were laying the groundwork for what will eventually be a huge upgrade for the space station's power system, and they spent quite a bit of time floating around the exterior of the spacecraft as they conducted the sensitive work.
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Spacewalking NASA astronauts just gave the ISS a major upgrade originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 17:47:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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