Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 10:13 AM ET (1513 GMT)
Two NASA astronauts spent seven hours outside the International Space Station Sunday beginning work on power upgrades. Kate Rubins and Victor Glover performed the spacewalk, lasting seven hours and four minutes, to assemble structures that will be used to support new solar panels on the station. The astronauts completed the assembly of one structure and started work on a second. Those structures will be used for the installation of roll-out solar arrays that will be delivered to the station later this year, part of a long-term project to augment the station's power supply. Rubins and Soichi Noguchi will perform another spacewalk Friday to complete the second structure and perform other maintenance tasks.

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