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Spacewalking Astronauts Tackle Battery Work Outside Station

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Astronauts went spacewalking Friday to hook up fancy new batteries on the International Space Station's sprawling power grid. Before venturing out, Commander Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson got a hand from a robot that took care of most of the grunt work. Remotely using robotics aboard the 250-mile-high lab, flight controllers in Houston spent the past week replacing decade-old, nickel-hydrogen batteries with better charging lithium-ion ones. Handling all those batteries — each...

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