ISS astronauts complete six-hour spacewalk to install solar panels

Successful International Space Station installation followed an attempt on Wednesday that ran into several problems

French and American astronauts have completed a six-hour spacewalk as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), Nasa said.

It is a huge team effort each time and couldn't be happier to return with @astro_kimbrough," Frenchman Thomas Pesquet tweeted on Sunday, referring to his American colleague Shane Kimbrough. Pesquet is with the European Space Agency, Kimbrough with Nasa.