Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough and Steve Bowen are back inside the U.S. Quest airlock at the International Space Station.The two completed a six-hour and seven-minute excursion that started at 1:24 p.m. EST and ended at 7:31 p.m. It was the fourth and final spacewalk of the mission. A cumulative time of 26 hours and 41 minutes was logged on those excursions.
The spacewalk was the 118th performed in the assembly and maintenance of the station, the first two building blocks of which were linked in orbit in late 1998 -- 10 years ago next month.
Total time tallied during those spacewalks: 745 hours and 29 minutes.
It was the 90th spacewalk staged from station airlocks. The remainder all were carried out from shuttle airlocks.
Bowen now has three spacewalks to his credit. He's chalked up 19 hours and 56 minutes of spacewalking time.
Kimbrough finished his second spacewalk. His cumulative spacewalk time: 12 hours and 52 minutes.
Stefanyshyn-Piper now is a veteran of five spacewalks. She's recorded 33 hours and 42 minutes working in the vacuum environment of low Earth orbit.
A two-orbit test of the starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint is scheduled to begin around 5:30 a.m. EST Tuesday.
The test will be webcast live here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the NASA TV bocx on the righthand side of this page to launch our NASA TV viewer and 24/7 coverage of the STS-126 mission.
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