WASHINGTON, February 4 (RIA Novosti) - Two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) have begun their second spacewalk this year, NASA reported Sunday.
ISS commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineer Sunita Williams left the station at 8:38 a.m. EST (13:38 GMT).
During their spacewalk, the astronauts' will reconfigure the second of two cooling loops for the Destiny module and complete the tasks started during the first spacewalk four days ago, NASA said.
The current crew of the world's sole orbital station comprises U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, who arrived at the station on September 20, and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, who replaced the European Space Agency's German astronaut Thomas Reiter in December 2006, and who will remain on the ISS for another several months.
