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ORLANDO, Fla.  —  An astronaut drove from Houston to Florida, donned a disguise and confronted a woman she believed was romantically involved with a space shuttle pilot she was in love with, police said. She was charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.

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Two down, one to go. And hold the ammonia, please. NASA reports:

Astronauts Complete Second Spacewalk of Series

Image above: Expedition 14 flight engineer Suni Williams works on the outside of the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA TV

Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams completed their spacewalk Sunday at 3:49 p.m. EST. This was the second of an unprecedented series of three spacewalks in nine days. Some of the tasks planned for this excursion were similar to those of the first spacewalk on Wednesday. They reconfigured the second of two cooling loops for the Destiny module, secured the aft radiator of the P6 truss after retraction and prepared the obsolete Early Ammonia Servicer for removal this summer.

At the conclusion of the third spacewalk from the Quest airlock on Feb. 8 and a Russian spacewalk planned for Feb. 22, Lopez-Alegria will have completed his 10th spacewalk, an astronaut record. Williams will have a total of four, the most ever by a woman.

+ Read more about the spacewalks
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+ Expedition 14 Mission Status Briefing Materials, Jan. 26, 2007
+ Read more about Expedition 14
+ Read more about Expedition 15
+ View crew’s daily timelines

With this EVA, Sunita Williams has broken the female spacewalk record set by Kathryn Thornton nearly 14 years ago.