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MOSCOW, June 28 (UPI) -- Russian officials say preparations have begun for a July 1 spacewalk to make the repairs to the International Space Station which were aborted June 25.
The spacewalk is designed to repair the power supply of a gyroscope that keeps the space station stabile. Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and astronaut Michael Fincke are to work for about six consecutive hours on the space station's external surface, Russia's Novosti news agency reported.
Specialists said the June 25 space walk had to be aborted because oxygen pressure in one of the Russian space suits dropped rapidly. Technicians said that probably happened because Fincke didn't turn the injector handle completely, thus causing spacesuit pressure to drop sharply.
An injector is a built-in pump, which delivers oxygen from a tank into the spacesuit itself.
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