Spacewalkers install fifth roll-out solar blanket to boost space station power

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Spacewalkers install fifth roll-out solar blanket to boost space station power
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Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday and installed the fifth of six roll-out solar array blankets needed to offset age-related degradation and micrometeoroid damage to the lab's original solar wings.

Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday and installed the fifth of six roll-out solar array blankets -- iROSAs -- needed to offset age-related degradation and micrometeoroid damage to the lab's original solar wings.

The two new iROSAs were delivered to the space station earlier this week in the unpressurized trunk section of a SpaceX cargo Dragon. The lab's robot arm pulled them out Wednesday and mounted them on the right side of the station's power truss just inboard the starboard wings. They returned to the airlock and began re-pressurization procedures at 3:28 p.m., bringing the 6-hour three-minute spacewalk to a close. With nine spacewalks totaling 60 hours and 22 minutes under his belt, Bowen now ranks fifth on the list of the world's most experienced spacewalkers.

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