On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6.
This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses a whole fleet of these satellites to relay communications between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations down on Earth. NASA astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave spent 4 hours and 17 minutes working in the vacuum of space while doing a series of tests in the shuttle's payload bay. This was also the first time that NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit was worn by astronauts in space.
This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses a whole fleet of these satellites to relay communications between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations down on Earth. NASA astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave spent 4 hours and 17 minutes working in the vacuum of space while doing a series of tests in the shuttle's payload bay. This was also the first time that NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit was worn by astronauts in space.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6.
00:10This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger.
00:14The goal of this mission was to deploy the first tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS-1.
00:19NASA now uses a whole fleet of these satellites to relay communications between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations on Earth.
00:25NASA astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave spent four hours and 17 minutes working in the vacuum of space
00:31while doing a series of tests in the shuttle's payload bay.
00:34This was also the first time that NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit was worn by astronauts in space.
00:39And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:43NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology