HOUSTON - Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Wednesday to help fold up a solar wing and bring to life a rotating joint that will allow a new pair of solar arrays to track the sun.
Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson spent the first two hours of their scheduled 6 1/2-hour spacewalk helping to put the 115-foot solar wing away in its storage box.
The spacewalk began at 2:28 p.m. EDT as the astronauts were 206 miles above eastern Europe.
A few hours before the walk started, astronauts began retracting the solar wing's 31 1/2 sections by computer command.
Using specially designed tools, including …
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