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Space Station Astronauts Execute Spacewalk Today

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Monday, December 22nd, 2008

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Crew Will Sleuth Possible Cause Of Soyuz Reentry Woes International Space Station crew members will perform a spacewalk beginning at roughly 7:15 p.m. ET this evening. The Expedition 18 crew aboard the International Space Station shifted its sleep schedule last night and awoke later than usual to begin preparations for the spacewalk by Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov. Fincke and Lonchakov are scheduled to exit the Pirs airlock for the six-hour excursion to install and retrieve science…

Pentagon

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Congress

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Army

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Unmanned Systems

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