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A final spacewalk with Mr. Reisman and Mr. Good is planned to finish up the work.
Dr. David A. Wolf and Dr. Piers J. Sellers spent the day getting ready for their third and final spacewalk, set for Monday.
Two astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis went on final spacewalk from the International Space Station, converting a newly installed girder into a functional part of the complex.
And so the rest of the work on this mission, which is scheduled to end with Endeavour returning to Earth on March 26, will involve today's inspection of the shuttle's heat shield, to detect any damage that might have occurred during the mission because of orbital debris, and a fifth and final spacewalk on Saturday evening.
During the eight days that the two spacecraft flew as one, the astronauts installed a $164 million passageway for spacewalkers, hooked high-pressure gas tanks to it and used it as a base to stage the third and final spacewalk of the mission.
As he headed into the airlock of the space shuttle Atlantis after the fifth and final spacewalk to tune up the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut and astronomer John M. Grunsfeld paused to pay tribute to the telescope and the human spirit.
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The final task of the spacewalk was to inspect a solar array on Kristall that was not tracking the Sun properly.
They overcame that on the second spacewalk, last Wednesday, and removed the broken pump.
NASA astronauts Fossum and Ron Garan performed the six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk, which represents the final scheduled extravehicular activity during shuttle missions.
During five spacewalks, astronauts installed the final pieces of a Japanese laboratory and replaced batteries on a solar wing.
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