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Experiment installed during ISS spacewalk (Roundup)

Mar 10, 2009, 22:08 GMT

Washington/Moscow - Two International Space Station crew members installed an experiment outside the craft on Tuesday during a nearly five-hour long spacewalk. US Commander Mike Fincke and Russian flight engineer Yury Lonchakov completed the spacewalk around 2110 GMT, about one hour earlier than planned. The spacewalk's main objective was to place a European Space Agency container of microorganisms outside the station to examine the effects of extreme temperatures and radiation. Fincke and Lonchakov also photographed the Russian parts of ISS. The third ISS crew member, US astronaut Sandra Magnus monitored the mission from onboard the space station. Late Wednesday, the space shuttle Discovery is to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida for a construction mission to the ISS. The seven-member crew will deliver and install the station's last solar panel. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will replace Magnus as a member of the ISS crew.

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