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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two spacewalking astronauts took on cable and antenna work at the international space station Saturday in their final trek outside but encountered last-minute difficulty with a connector and had to leave one job undone.

Everything went well for lead spacewalker Danny Olivas and his partner, Christer Fuglesang, until near the end of the seven-hour spacewalk, when Fuglesang had trouble hooking up one of the cable connectors to a panel on the space station. What’s more, his helmet camera came loose.

Mission Control told Fuglesang to wrap insulation around the loose power connector and leave it.

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