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[b]Second of three cable-routing EVAs ends[/b] Expedition 42 commander Butch Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts are back inside the International Space Station following their successful six hour, 43 minute spacewalk. The second of the pairs' three scheduled outings together ended at 12:34 p.m. CST (1834 GMT) on Wednesday (Feb. 25). During the spacewalk, Wilmore and Virts completed all the work set out for them, routing cables as part of a reconfiguration of the space station to enable commercial crew spacecraft to dock in the coming years. Virts also lubricated elements at the latching end of the space station's robotic arm while Wilmore prepared Node 3 "Tranquility" for the relocation of the Permanent Multipurpose Module and the arrival of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) later this year. After the spacewalk ended and the two astronauts were safely back inside the airlock, Virts reported detecting dampness in his helmet absorption pad, a precaution added to the suit after a 2013 EVA when ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water. Video sent down of Virts still inside his suit showed a "blob" of about 3-inches of water inside his helmet. Despite the water, Virts was never in danger. This was Wilmore's third career spacewalk and Virts second. It was the 186th EVA in support of station assembly and maintenance. The two are scheduled to venture outside the space station again on Sunday, March 1.
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