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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk.
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION
Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Sunday for the first in a series of spacewalks to upgrade the lab’s aging solar power system, assembling a support fixture that eventually will hold a new solar blanket.