SPACE — On April 7, 1983, astronauts made a spacewalk or spacewalk first outside the shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger.
The goal of the mission was to deploy the first Data Tracking and Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses this entire fleet of satellites in relaying communications between spacecraft in orbit and stations on Earth.
NASA astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave spent 4 hours and 17 minutes working in the vacuum of space while carrying out a series of tests in the space shuttle’s payload. This is also the first time NASA’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuits have been worn by astronauts in space. Source: Space.com
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