French and American astronauts have completed a six-hour spacewalk as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), Nasa said.
“It is a huge team effort each time and couldn’t be happier to return with @astro_kimbrough,” Frenchman Thomas Pesquet tweeted on Sunday, referring to his American colleague Shane Kimbrough. Pesquet is with the European Space Agency, Kimbrough with Nasa.
The two men, who arrived on the space station in late April, activated the internal batteries in their space suits at 11.42 GMT, then opened the hatch to the ISS airlock.
They then continued the work of positioning, attaching and deploying six new-generation solar panels, referred
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