Cosmonauts install U.S.-built solar array, film commercial

Russian cosmonauts installed a U.S. built solar array on the space station Mir's Kvant astrophysics module Tuesday, taking time at the end of a five-hour spacewalk to film a Pepsi commercial. U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid remained inside Mir as crewmates Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev shifted the...

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