
Spacewalkers make second attempt to deploy balky solar array
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Spacewalkers Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough floated back outside the International Space Station Sunday for a second attempt to deploy a balky roll-out solar array. A third excursion is on tap Friday to attach and unfurl a second blanket.
Floating in the Quest airlock, Pesquet, call sign EV-1, and Kimbrough, EV-2, switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:42 a.m. EDT to officially begin the year's eighth spacewalk, the 240th devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998. For identification, Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut, is wearing a suit with red stripes and using helmet camera 20. Kimbrough is using an unmarked suit with helmet camera 22. Both astronauts also are equipped with high-definition cameras.
Washington — A federal judge on Friday declined to block the Trump administration from putting thousands of employees with U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave and recalling others from overseas, clearing the way for the president to resume his efforts to overhaul the agency as part of his plans to slash the size of the federal government.

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