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WASHINGTON Trevor Siemian Broncos 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, 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, 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.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- "Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright," the Christmas carol was sung on the north lawn at the UN headquarters in the chilly Friday afternoon.
It is for the "Christmas truce," a series of unofficial cease-fires that took place around Christmas 1914 during World War I, in which British and German soldiers stopped fighting for a day, exchanged greetings and sang carols in trenches of the Western Front. Some of them were friendly enough to play football together.
The United Nations held a special event to commemorate the centenary of the truce, which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred to as "quite extraordinary, unchoreographed."
"To this day, the events of Christmas 1914 give us hope that enmities can be forgotten, and that former enemies ... can become great allies," Ban told the event.
"Tragically, the world found itself at war again (in WWII). The United Nations rose from those ashes, and next year will celebrate its 70th anniversary," he added.
After Ban's speech, diplomats who gathered on the lawn sang a stanza of "Silent Night" in English and German, and then they lined up to take soccer penalty shots, which cheered the crowd.
During the event, British and German ambassadors read extracts of letters written by British and German soldiers at the time to help rebuild scenes of the truce.
"The Germans sang 'Stille Nacht,' it sounded well. Then our men sang 'Silent Night,' it sounded so well too," wrote a British officer stationed at the Western Front in 1914.
The German ambassador read a letter written by Josef Wenzl, a soldier from the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, to his parents on Dec. 28, 1914.
"Between the trenches the bitter and hated enemies were standing around the Christmas tree singing Christmas songs," he wrote. "I will never forget this sight for as long as I live."
Wenzl was killed in action on May 6, 1917. Like millions of others who lost their lives in WWI, he went to sleep "in heavenly peace," as the Christmas carol goes.
by Ray Ankomah
ACCRA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Isolated and uncoordinated shootingincidents across Ghana have claimed innocent lives, stoking fearsthe West African country could be heading for bigger troubles.
While some of these shootings are purely accidental, others havecome from armed robbers and serial killers who have shot and maimedor killed their victims.
A recent incident was between Richard Yaw Boadi, a 32-year-oldmechanic and Nana Frimpong in front of a garage at Alajo, a suburbof Accra.
Frimpong, who had apparently obstructed vehicle movements at agarage, had been asked by Boadi to park properly to make room forother vehicles.
However, Frimpong refused and fired a gun that hit Boadi in thestomach. Boadi died two days later after being hospitalized.
The number of such incidents is increasing and causing headachesfor the country's Small Arms Commission that has sought to controlthe proliferation of small arms in the hands of individuals.
Programs Director at the Commission, Johnson Asante Twum, whilecommenting on the issue, explained that individuals needed to gothrough "a certain regime that will tell him or her when and how touse that weapon."
"As it is now, if they just check your background and you passper whatever criteria that you don't have any history of violence,not a temperamental person and all that, the police will have noreason to deny you," He told local radio network, Joy FMrecently.
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