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[b]Astronauts make quick work of short spacewalk[/b] NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra successfully freed the International Space Station's mobile transporter during a three hour, 16 minute spacewalk on Monday (Dec. 21). The unplanned extravehicular activity (EVA) began at 6:45 a.m. CST (1245 GMT) and ended at 10:01 a.m. CST (1601 GMT). Kelly and Kopra made quick work of releasing brake handles on the crew equipment (CETA) carts on either side of the mobile transporter rail car so it could be latched in place ahead of Wednesday’s docking of Russia's Progress MS-01 cargo spacecraft. Their primary objective completed, the two Expedition 46 crewmates tackled several get-ahead tasks. Kelly routed a second pair of cables in preparation for the installation of an International Docking Adapter (IDA) to support U.S. commercial crew vehicles, continuing work he began during a November spacewalk. Kopra routed an ethernet cable that ultimately will connect to a Russian laboratory module. They also retrieved tools that had been in a toolbox on the outside of the station, so they can be used for future work. The spacewalk was the third for Kelly, who is nine months into a nearly yearlong mission, and the second for Kopra, who arrived to the station on Dec. 15. It was the 191st EVA in support of assembly and maintenance of the orbiting laboratory. Crew members have now spent a total of 1,195 hours and 20 minutes working outside the International Space Staiton.
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