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CBS Evening News for Thursday, Oct 17, 2019
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Finally tonight, since 1965, there have been four hundred and twenty spacewalks. At least one man has taken part in every one of them. Well, Mark Strassmann reports tonight that changes tomorrow. But it takes up positions. Living on the International Space Station gets cramped. But that's not why astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will step outside it tomorrow morning. Together, they'll replace a faulty battery charger on an exterior solar panel. The first all female spacewalk in history...
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