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Astronauts will begin a series of spacewalks Nov. 15 to repair the cooling system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an instrument never designed to be serviced in orbit.

Two astronauts are set to begin a series of spacewalks this week to repair an instrument outside the International Space Station that was never designed to be serviced in orbit.

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