Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new solar wings

Spacewalking astronauts ventured out sunday to put in help frames for new, excessive-efficiency sun panels arriving on the global space station later this 12 months.

Nasa's kate rubins and victor glover placed the primary set of mounting brackets and struts together, then bolted them into location next to the station's oldest and most degraded sun wings. however the work took longer than anticipated, and they slightly were given began on the second set before calling it quits.