article_snippet: Spacewalking astronauts who ventured out for the third time in just over a week on Sunday have completed an extensive, tricky cable job at the International Space Station.
article_snippet: NASA said another main part of the astronauts task was to route 400 feet (121 meters) of cable .
article_snippet: American astronauts Terry Virts and Butch Wilmore had 400 more feet of power and data cable, as well as two antennas which as well installed Sunday .
article_snippet: The advance work, involving nearly 800 feet of cable over three spacewalks was carried out to create new crew capsules commissioned by NASA.
article_snippet: the work Terry Virts and Wilmore meant 400 more feet of power and data cable has been installed, as well as two antennas installed on Sunday.
article_snippet: astronauts aboard successfully routed 364 feet on astronauts aboard first two excursions, on February 21 and last Wednesday.
article_snippet: astronauts aboard carried out complicated work Sunday, yet astronauts aboard completed astronauts aboard task  an hour early  making it a five and a half-hour spacewalk.
article_snippet: astronauts aboard spent 20 hours altogether on three outings.
article_snippet: Mission Control joked by radio: 'You guys have done an outstanding job even for two shuttle pilots.'
article_snippet: The 260-mile (418-kilometre) spacewalk unfolded 50 years to the month of the world's first spacewalk by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov  on March 18, 1965.
article_snippet: Nasa hasn't conducted such a quick succession of spacewalks since Nasa former shuttle days, and the amount of cable work is unprecedented.
article_snippet: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carried them both up, with Nasa paying for the multimillion dollar tickets.
highlights_snippet: the astronauts' installed nearly 800 feet of cable over three spacewalks .
  