Tuesday, November 18, 2008

STS-126 Crew Completes First Spacewalk

STS-126 Crew Completes First Spacewalk

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:06 AM GMT+0800

The first STS-126 spacewalk ended at 8:01 p.m. EST. Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Steve Bowen spent six hours and 52 minutes outside the station working on several tasks, including removing a depleted nitrogen tank from a stowage platform on the outside of the complex and moving it into Endeavour’s cargo bay. They also moved a flex hose rotary coupler from the shuttle to the station stowage platform, as well as removing some insulation blankets from the common berthing mechanism on the Kibo laboratory.

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