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On This Day: April 7, 1983 - First Space Shuttle Spacewalk Performed

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On This Day: April 7, 1983 - First Space Shuttle Spacewalk Performed.

On this day April 7, 1983, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made history by performing the first ever spacewalk from a space shuttle during NASA’s STS 6 mission aboard Challenger. This groundbreaking extravehicular activity marked a key step in the evolution of shuttle era missions and showed how astronauts could work safely and effectively outside the shuttle in Earth’s orbit.

The spacewalk lasted over four hours and included a series of tests on the new shuttle era spacesuits...
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