BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, history continues in outer space. Two crew members on the space shuttle Atlantis carried out a record- setting spacewalk at the International Space Station. It all happened about 230 miles above our planet. More now from CNN's Miles O'Brien on this story.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got a good view of you, Ed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All righty.</s>MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the fiftieth foray outside a U.S. space shuttle, a space walking duo set a distance record. NASA astronaut Ed Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko pulled themselves hand over hand to the far end of the fledgling International Space Station, more than 100 feet from Atlantis, the farthest traverse ever by tethered shuttle space walkers. Once there, the space walkers attached a device that detects the Earth's magnetic field. It will help the station straighten up and fly right. They also connected nine cables that will link data, communication and closed-circuit TV systems on the two Russian components in the space station stack. The cables were carefully spooled to try and ease the challenging task.</s>ED LU, NASA ASTRONAUT: If you have a 30-foot weightless cable, it would become like a giant snake in orbit, and it would be tough to control and keep it from snagging on things.</s>O'BRIEN: But there were no snags. Lu and Malenchenko stayed ahead of schedule throughout their 6 1/2-hour stint in the void. It was the sixth of 161 space walks planned to assemble the $100 billion outpost over the next 5 1/2 years. Miles O'Brien, CNN.
Two Atlantis Crew Members Carry Out Record-Setting Spacewalk at International Space Station