Shuttle astronauts take final spacewalk
Two spacewalking astronauts attached the last pieces of scientific equipment to the outside of the space station’s new lab today and packed away a broken gyroscope for next week’s return journey home.
It was the third and final spacewalk for Atlantis’ astronauts, who arrived at the international space station nearly a week ago.
Rex Walheim and Stanley Love attached a package of sun-gazing instruments to the European Columbus lab as well as a huge box containing eight experiments to detect micrometeorite strikes and measure space radiation, among other things.
As they hooked up the solar experiments, French astronaut Leopold Eyharts informed them that the linked shuttle-station was just about to pass over Europe after sailing across the Atlantic.
