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Spacewalkers complete five-year effort to upgrade space station power supply

Spacewalkers complete five-year effort to upgrade space station power supply

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Spacewalking astronauts Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon unfurled the last of eight new solar arrays outside the International Space Station Thursday, working through an unexpected power snag to complete a five-year upgrade designed to keep the orbiting laboratory running through its retirement in 2030.

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