A special Christmas message has been sent to planet Earth all the way from the International Space Station.
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Two Americans floated outside the International Space Station on Monday morning to perform a spacewalk with the primary goal of freeing a rail auto that was stalled outside the orbiting lab.
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Astronauts normally plan for months before going on a spacewalk.
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In under an hour, Nasa’s Commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Timothy Kopra were able to release the brake handles by hitting it twice, and then guided it back into place.
In Mission Control, astronaut Mike Hopkins cautioned them to avoid making accidental contact with the rail auto since it wasn’t secured into its usual spot.
The rail car’s brake was believed to have become stuck unexpectedly last week after it moved about four inches (10 centimeters) from its starting point.
The astronauts needed to fix a broken part called the “mobile transporter” – a rail vehicle that moves a robotic arm up and down the length of the space station.
It was the seventh spacewalk of the year.
Overall, the three-hour 16-minute operation went off without a hitch, finishing just as the ISS began to make its way above India and Sri Lanka.
“This is a team effort”, Kelly said. Earlier, British astronaut Tim Peake alongside astronaut Tim Kopra and veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko safely reached the ISS.
This NasaTV image grab shows a live broadcast of Scott Kelly during the space walk outside the International Space Station.
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Now they will have a final digital HD version for keeps on December 22 (which coincides with The Martian’s Blu-Ray release) along with Scott’s film collection which also includes Prometheus, Thelma & Louise, Exodus and Alien (that last one is another one they might want to pass on while in space).
