Astronauts conduct space walk

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Source: CCTV.com | 02-16-2008 13:33

Two astronauts on board the shuttle Atlantis have resumed work outside the International Space Station to attach equipment to the hull of Europe's newly delivered research outpost.

German astronauts Rex Walheim and Stanley Love ventured out of the station's airlock on Friday to begin the  third and final excursion of Atlantis' nine-day visit. (CCTV.com)

German astronauts Rex Walheim and Stanley Love ventured out of the station's airlock on Friday to begin the third and final excursion of Atlantis' nine-day visit.

The Columbus module is the European Space Agency's permanent space laboratory and cost 1.9 billion US dollars.

It was launched aboard Atlantis last week and connected to the station on Monday.

Atlantis astronauts Stanley Love and Rex Walheim work on the Columbus module before installing it on the  International Space Station (ISS). Two astronauts  have begun a second of three planned spacewalks to  install the European laboratory on the ISS.  (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

During Friday's spacewalk, Walheim and Love planned to install a European solar observatory and a materials science experiment on the outside of the Columbus laboratory.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei