Archive - Jun 4, 2008

Crews Complete First Spacewalk

ISS News[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/160328main_JPM_unberth.jpg[/img] Image above: A view of the Japanese Pressurized Module as it moves from space shuttle Discovery's payload bay to its new home on the station. Credit: NASA TV The crews of space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station have completed the first of three spacewalks, attaching a new laboratory to the orbital outpost. During the excursion, spacewalkers retrieved a shuttle inspection tool, inspected components of a solar alpha rotary joint and prepared the largest component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory for installation on the station.
N5VHO – Wed, 2008 – 06 – 04 09:48
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