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Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in the hope of plugging a serious ammonia leak.

As the Russians struggled to correct the computer problems, two American astronauts, James F. Reilly II and John D. Olivas, conducted the planned spacewalk that might otherwise have been the most compelling moment of the mission.

Lead Flight Director Tony Ceccacci noted that the final EVA was also the last planned spacewalk from a shuttle airlock.

If necessary, the astronauts could repair the damage during one of their planned spacewalks.

Because of the quickly planned spacewalks, the first official cargo mission of Orbital Sciences Cygnusspacecraftft had to be postponed.

Completing the fifth of the five planned spacewalks, Grunsfeld and Feustel successfully installed the second battery, removed and replaced the Fine Guidance Sensor number three, and worked so efficiently that they were over an hour ahead of the timeline, giving them time to remove degraded insulation panels from three bays of the telescope, and install three New Outer Blanket Layers (NOBLs).

"We've got quite a bit of work to do over the next couple of days before we commit" to another spacewalk, said Stephen C. Doering, who heads the office responsible for planning spacewalks.

NASA officials originally planned the spacewalk for Thursday, but they delayed it a day for additional preparation.

A replacement arm computer unit is aboard the station and project managers will decide Friday whether to ask the station's resident crew to expand a planned June 8 spacewalk to change this unit in the arm.

NASA has delayed the second of three planned holiday spacewalks by 24 hours, setting up a Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) excursion from the International Space Station for two astronauts.

The original activities planned for the spacewalk were for construction of the International Space Station.