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WASHINGTON Cheap Glen Rice Jersey , Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- A pair of U.S. astronauts successfully completed the first of three spacewalks on Saturday, installing over 100 meters of cable outside the International Space Station as part of a preparation for future arrivals of American commercial crew spacecraft.


NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts "completed all the scheduled tasks for today and one get ahead task," the U.S. space agency said in a statement. "They rigged a series of power and data cables at the forward end of the Harmony module and Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 and routed 340 of 360 feet (110 meters) of cable."


The cable routing work is part of a reconfiguration of station systems and modules for the installation of two international docking adapters to be delivered by a pair of SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft later this year.


The new docking ports will welcome U.S. commercial spacecraft launching from Florida beginning in 2017, permitting the standard station crew size to grow from six to seven and potentially double the amount of crew time devoted to research from 40 hours to 80 hours per week Cheap Shaquille O'Neal Jersey , NASA said.


The two astronauts ventured out of the station at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1245 GMT) and reentered the orbiting outpost at 2:26 p.m. EST ( 1926 GMT).


The spacewalk was the first for Virts, and the second for Wilmore, who has conducted one spacewalk last October.


The duo will perform two more spacewalks on Wednesday and March 1.


Because the spacewalks focused on laying and attaching cables, NASA's space station blog called the two astronauts "cable guys."


NASA has relied on Russia's Soyuz capsules to deliver astronauts to the station since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.


In order to end the reliance Cheap Tim Hardaway Jersey , the U.S. space agency awarded contracts last year to Boeing and SpaceX to develop solutions for American astronaut transportation to and from the station.


Currently, Boeing is working with NASA on its CST-100 spacecraft, anticipating an orbital flight test in April 2017, then a crewed flight test with one Boeing test pilot and one NASA astronaut in July 2017.


SpaceX is targeting its new crewed Dragon spacecraft to make an uncrewed flight test in late 2016 and a crewed flight test in early 2017.

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BERLIN Cheap Chris Bosh Jersey , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens (Gruene) stressed respectively on Wednesday that formidable obstacles remained for a ""Jamaica"" coalition between their parties and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Christian Social Union (CDU) to become reality.


FDP leader Christian Lindner struck a pessimistic tone about the political prospects of what is widely-viewed to be the most likely next constellation to govern Germany.


Some people were misguidedly glorifying a ""Jamaica"" coalition as a ""romantic political project,"" Lindner told the newspaper ""Welt."" While it was true that the four parties involved enjoyed an arithmetic majority, they all had distinct mandates from their voters.


Whether these mandates could be combined without contradiction and in the interest of the country was still ""written in the stars,"" according to Lindner. He added that the FDP would only enter a coalition when it could ensure a ""change of trend in German politics.""


The FDP published a paper containing 10 reform proposals spanning education Cheap Hassan Whiteside Jersey , over digitalization, migration policy, tax relief and the Eurozone at party conference shortly before Sunday's election.


In a similar fashion, Greens co-leader Simone Peter also drew attention to the conditions for her party's participation in a coalition government.


Speaking in the newspaper ""Rheinische Post Cheap Dion Waiters Jersey ,"" Peter warned that there could be no fixed upper limit on the number of refugees admitted to annually enter Germany. The CSU has repeatedly called for this measure, describing it as a binding promise to its voters, while the Greens, FDP and CDU remain opposed.


Acknowledging differences in opinion between the sister parties CDU and CSU Cheap Dwyane Wade Jersey , FDP chief Lindner further warned of potential internal disputes between more right- and left-leaning factions of the Greens. Lindner said he would welcome it if Greens politicians who practiced ""Realpolitik"" gained more influence after the election.


Meanwhile, CDU Deputy Federal Chairwomen Julia Kloeckner rejected calls for her party to lurch to the right in response to electoral losses.


Rather than becoming an ""anti-party like the Alternative for Germany (AfD),"" the CDU had to address the daily concerns of German citizens who occupied society's political middle-ground in an appropriate and measured fashion, Kloeckner told the newspaper ""Neue Passauer Presse Cheap Alonzo Mourning Jersey ,"" otherwise, ""radicals"" would gain an opportunity to abuse related fears.


Kloeckner further urged all potential coalition partners to showcase public restraint ahead of political negotiations.


""Every coalition partner has their own ideas, and everyone knows that there must be compromises,"" Kloeckner said.


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