1.   A Russian Mission Control Center spokesman says the cosmonauts have too much work reconnecting research equipment to the power supply network to complete before the spacewalk can happen.

2.   But the cosmonauts do have some strong defenders within the space agency and in society at large.

3.   Shelves are in disarray, so cosmonauts often have to call back to Earth to find out where prior crews left tools.

4.   Because the cosmonauts did not have time to test the crane they installed on their first spacewalk, the job fell to Culbertson and Dezhurov.

5.   But as Mir aged, the cosmonauts increasingly had to make repairs.

6.   In Kazakhstan, Russian cosmonauts sometimes have to be lifted from their capsules by cranes after months in space.

7.   It was embarrassing enough when cosmonauts had to call off a scheduled spacewalk earlier this week because they had broken every one of their wrenches.

8.   Latyshev said the only shortcoming was that the cosmonauts did not have time to move one of the platforms of the battery.

9.   Marcia Smith, a specialist in space policy for the Congressional Research Service, said the cosmonauts should have little trouble reinstalling power cables inside Spektr.

10.   Mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin acknowledged that the cheaper fuel had been used to save money, but denied that the cosmonauts had to lose weight because of it.