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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts working inside and out installed a porch for experiments on Japan’s enormous space station lab Saturday, accomplishing the major objective despite microphone static that often drowned out the spacewalkers’ voices.
NASA officials said the static was a nuisance but not a safety issue, and they hoped to resolve the problem before the next spacewalk Monday.
Indeed, veteran spaceman David Wolf and rookie Timothy Kopra wasted no time 220 miles up prepping the Kibo lab — “hope” in Japanese — and the new porch for their mechanical hookup. Wolf removed an insulating cover from the lab and tossed it overboard; the white cover drifted away, flipping end over end.
