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The 6½-hour 'extra-vehicular activity' is needed to replace a failed solar-power unit
CBC News Posted: Jan 15, 2016 7:50 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 15, 2016 7:50 AM ET
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station this morning to replace a failed solar-power unit.
The six-and-a-half-hour "extra-vehicular activity" will mark a historic moment for the U.K.'s space program, as Tim Peake becomes the first British astronaut to complete a spacewalk.
(Michael Foale became the first Briton to carry out a spacewalk in 2005 but he did so as a NASA astronaut.)
Peake — along with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra — will also lay cables for new docking ports and retrieve a broken light from a truss camera.
Watch the spacewalk live at 7:55 a.m. ET.
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