The trouble arose toward the end of the more than 8-hour spacewalk the longest ever by Russians and the fifth longest overall after Commander Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov successfully replaced an electronics box to upgrade the antenna.
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Must have been the AE-35 unit.
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
“After removing the old, obsolete electronics box from the antenna an original part, launched in 2000 Misurkin shoved it away from the space station....”
“The 60-pound box measuring just a couple of feet, or less than a meter was hurled in a direction that will not intersect with the space station, according to NASA officials.”
” ...The discarded electronics box will re-enter and burn up, too; Mission Control said it did not know when that will occur.”
The trouble arose toward the end of the more than 8-hour spacewalk the longest ever by Russians
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Russian spacewalk -
Space walk, heel to toe, while touching your nose with your outstretched finger, and count backwards from 99 to zero.