Working in Tandem
Posted by Prateek Tripathi on Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dwarfed by space shuttle Discovery and with Earth's horizon and the
blackness of space providing the backdrop for the scene, NASA
astronauts Rick Mastracchio (right) and Clayton Anderson worked in
Discovery's aft payload bay during the mission's third and final
spacewalk. During the
six-hour, 24-minute spacewalk, Mastracchio and Anderson hooked up fluid
lines of the new 1,700-pound tank, retrieved some micrometeoroid
shields from the Quest airlock's exterior, relocated a portable foot
restraint and prepared cables on the Zenith 1 truss for a spare Space
to Ground Ku-Band antenna, two chores required before space shuttle
Atlantis' STS-132/ULF-4 mission in May. Image Credit: NASA