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From left: NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
Thomas and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough left the International Space Station airlock Friday 24 March 2017 on their second spacewalk together.
They spent six hours and 34 minutes outside working on upgrading the Space Station’s computer systems, replacing lights, checking for leaks in the cooling system and maintaining the Dextre robotic hand.