ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 (UPI) -- A mechanical problem foiled two astronauts' efforts Wednesday to install a massive new solar array on the International Space Station during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours, 15 minutes.
Six hours into the spacewalk, NASA Mission Control in Houston decided to scrap the plan to deploy the array. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency will help the agency evaluate the problem before engineers attempt to fix it.