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The Night Shift

The Night Shift

For the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), the sun sets every 90 minutes . But working through the night, spacewalking astronauts can rely on artificial lighting. Here, the eerie glow of work-lights illuminate Space Shuttle Endeavor astronaut Jerry Ross during a night on his second spacewalk as he continues the in orbit assembly of the ISS . Endeavor landed at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday night bringing an end to the successful ISS assembly mission and the final shuttle mission of 1998 .

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Credit: STS-88 Mission, NASA