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Making Improvements

Making Improvements
Astronaut Rick Mastracchio participates in the mission's first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction continues on the International Space Station. During the 6-hour, 17-minute spacewalk Mastracchio and Canadian Space Agency's Dave Williams attached the Starboard 5 segment of the station's truss and retracted a radiator.

Astronaut Rick Mastracchio participates in the mission’s first planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction continues on the International Space Station. During the 6-hour, 17-minute spacewalk Mastracchio and Canadian Space Agency’s Dave Williams (out of frame) attached the Starboard 5 segment of the station’s truss and retracted the forward heat-rejecting radiator from the station’s Port 6 truss.Image credit: NASA