HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two shuttle Endeavour astronauts finished the longest of their planned spacewalks outside the orbiting International Space Station on Saturday, a nearly seven-hour effort aimed at cleaning and repairing a contaminated joint on the station's solar power array.
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Stephen Bowen returned to the station's Quest airlock at 7:58 p.m. EST/0058 GMT after spending six hours and 57 minutes working in the vacuum of space as the station sailed about 225 miles (362 km) over Earth.
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