Friday, September 15, 2006

Astronauts work on final spacewalk

Space shuttle Atlantis' crew along with the International Space Station (ISS) crew begin depolyment of the station's newly installed port solar array early in this NASA handout image 14 September 2006. The deployment had been delayed by several hours by a glitch in software that controls the arrays' rotation arm.The first pair of array panels were unfurled at 5:26 am (1026 GMT) and the second set were to be deployed about an hour later said Pat Ryan a spokesman for the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.  AFP PHOTO/NASA VIDEO/HO =GETTY OUT=  (Photo credit should read NASA VIDEO/AFP/Getty Images)Two shuttle astronauts install the international space station's new radiator and take on a series of fix-it tasks during the last spacewalk of their mission.


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