this historic spacewalk and support of the space station went on. fisher and peggy whitson are about two and a half hours into the spacewalk which is not been cut down from a planned six hours to four or five hours. an avionics vase that supplies data electricity to the ongoing science experiments, they planned to also put a protective shield on the adapter where the new docking port will go for future commercial crew. as soon as next year, a crew could be flying up astronauts on american-made ships ending our reliance on the russians. that job will likely be postponed to another day. the first spacewalk supporting the state station happened 80 and half years ago. 1998 back when there wasn't much at all and we still use space shuttles. jerry ross and jim newman rode the big canada after the two components of the space station.