Spacewalkers finishing 4 years of power upgrades for station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station’s power grid is finally wrapping up. A pair of NASA astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Monday to install the last battery component. It’s the second spacewalk in five days for Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover. Over the weekend, flight controllers in Houston used the station’s big robot arm to replace the last batch of old-style batteries with a new, more powerful one. Hopkins and Glover will put the finishing touches on these newest lithium-ion batteries. Their work completes a series of spacewalks that began in 2017.