Shuttle Discovery's astronauts prepared for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station. During a scheduled 6 1/2 hour spacewalk, astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. will prep the $1 billion lab, named "Kibo" -- Japanese for "hope" -- for installation by removing power and heating cables and various restraints that connect it to the shuttle. Later in the day, astronauts working from inside will use the space station's robot arm to lift the bus-size lab from the shuttle and anchor it to the station.
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Spacewalking Astronauts Gear Up for Major Lab Work
Shuttle Discovery's astronauts prepared for the first spacewalk of their mission Tuesday and the installation of Japan's giant lab to the international space station. During a scheduled 6 1/2 hour spacewalk, astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. will prep the $1 billion lab, named "Kibo" -- Japanese for "hope" -- for installation by removing power and heating cables and various restraints that connect it to the shuttle. Later in the day, astronauts working from inside will use the space station's robot arm to lift the bus-size lab from the shuttle and anchor it to the station.
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