Two Atlantis astronauts install ISS antenna in first spacewalk
17:12, 20 November 2009
WASHINGTON. November 20. KAZINFORM Two U.S. astronauts conducted the first spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantis and installed an antenna on the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, NASA said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
According to NASA, mission specialists Michael Foreman and Dr. Robert Satcher Jr. began the spacewalk at 9:24 a.m. EDT (1424 GMT),which lasted six hours and 37 minutes.
The duo installed a spare antenna to the outside of the ISS in just two hours after venturing out. They also hooked up cables and a handrail, and greased some mechanisms; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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