Spacewalkers Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke have completed the connections for the external wireless communications system equipment and are putting away some tools and equipment. This work was deferred from the first spacewalk with Feustel and Greg Chamitoff.

They will then return to installing jumper cables that will add an extra level of redundancy to the system that provides the Russian side of the space station with power. These cables will run from the Harmony node to the Unity node to the Zarya module. They have installed cables 1 and 4 and now are working on 2 and 3.

While in the area, Fincke and Feustel will photograph Zarya’s thrusters as well as the newly installed power and data grapple fixture.

They are still about 30 minutes ahead of the planned spacewalk timeline.

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David Cottle

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