1.   A third repair task required the crew to re-secure a piece of exercise equipment that had become loose.

2.   But Foale has the advantage of knowing the Mir layout well after two months aboard and will have time to practice for the repair task aboard ship.

3.   If NASA rules out a spacewalk by Foale, the repair task likely will fall to cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Pavel Vinogradov.

4.   Next, Foale assisted Nicollier with another time consuming repair task.

5.   Though the two men quickly dispensed of the solar array repair task, their excursion stretched to five hours as they tackled other tasks.