May 22 2000
From The Space Library
Astronauts Jeffrey N. Williams and James S. Voss conducted a 6-hour spacewalk to make repairs to the ISS. The pair successfully repaired the station's construction crane, replaced a failed antenna, and began installing a much larger, Russian-built crane, designed to aid workers in adding the final modules to the ISS. NASA officials highlighted the exercise as a precursor of the maintenance schedule to come: "This spacewalk was a good example of what future spacewalks are going to look like, where we will need to perform maintenance on the space station." The spacewalk occurred after Atlantis had docked at the space station, but while the hatch doors between the two spacecraft remained shut.
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