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Engineers at Nasa say the latest spacewalk from
the International Space Station has been a success.
An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut hooked
up cables and tested a crane.
It was station commander Frank Culbertson's first
spacewalk and probably his last because he is likely return to his
old shuttle-piloting job after this mission.
The station was 250 miles over the Pacific when
Culbertson and Vladimir Dezhurov began their work in space.
They inspected and photographed a Russian solar
wing which never fully deployed and Dezhurov extended the telescoping
crane 40ft by turning a hand crank.
He told mission controllers: "It's kind of
hard. I have cramps in my hand."
It was decided that Culbertson wouldn't have to
get on the end of the crane and act as a human payload to test it.
The two men and Mikhail Tyurin have been living
on the outpost since August but are expected to return after a fresh
three-man crew arrives on board the space shuttle Endeavour early
next month.
Story filed: 13:48 Tuesday 13th November 2001
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