Take 2: Spacewalking Astronauts Install New Solar Panel

In this image taken from NASA video, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough (L) and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet work on the solar array outside the International Space Station, on June 20 2021. NASA via AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels Sunday, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence.

It took two spacewalks for French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to install and unfurl the panel to its full 63 feet (19 meters) in length.