HOUSTON—NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken all but completed a long-running series of battery replacements on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) during a 6-hr. spacewalk July 16. The astronauts exchanged new lithium ion (Li) batteries for aging nickel hydrogen (NH) units...
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