Astronauts Begin Prepping ISS for New Space Taxis

A pair of spacewalking NASA astronauts hustled through an electrical repair job outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, then began work to prepare the outpost for new commercial space taxis. Station flight engineers Reid Wiseman and Barry "Butch" Wilmore floated outside the station's airlock shortly after 8:15 a.m. EDT [1215 GMT] to begin a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk. Their primary job was to replace a voltage regulator that failed in May, cutting out one of the...

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