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.