American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry W. Virts when you exit into space installed on the International Space Station 230 meters of cabling, a new communication system and special antenna. All this in order to build two new docks.
New docks in the future will support the new American manned spacecraft, built by the company SpaceX and Boeing. If all goes according to plan, the first flights to the ISS will be held in 2017. The withdrawal from service of the US space shuttle in 2011, transport astronauts and supplies to the ISS is exclusively aboard Russian Soyuz ships.
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Source: CNN Newsource / x-news
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