Shuttle Astronauts On Final Spacewalk of Current Mission
By VOA News
27 July 2009
Two astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour are on the final spacewalk of their mission, to continue work on the International Space Station.
The exercise is the fifth spacewalk of Endeavour's mission. Monday's work schedule for astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn includes fixing insulation on a robot arm and installing television cameras.
This final spacewalk is expected to last six-and-a-half hours.
Endeavour lifted off July 15 for a more than two-week mission to help complete the space station.
The mission became a little more complicated Saturday, when a space station air purifier popped a circuit breaker and shut down. Controllers managed to get it working again in manual mode. NASA plans to send a backup air purifier during the next shuttle mission, scheduled for August.
If all goes as scheduled, Endeavour will leave the space station Tuesday and land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.
Some information for this report was provided by AP
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