by Playfuls Staff |
15th December 2006
Two astronauts swapped two of the space station's four electrical units onto a new, permanent system Thursday afternoon, sending a sense of relief to anxiously watching NASA [more] officials on Earth.
That's "great news," one official at Houston control centre said in the broadcast procedures on NASA TV. "The power up of the new system is also complete."
Swedish astronaut Christer Fluglesang and his US colleague Bob Curbeam were only two hours and five minutes into their six-hour spacewalk when the first success was reported. But there were still a number of repowering activities that had to be carried out.
© 2006 DPA
