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First U.S. Spacewalk at Mir — March 27, 1996

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Mar 27, 2018
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Astronaut Rich Clifford works at a restraint bar on the Russian space station Mir while docked to Space Shuttle Atlantis.
On March 26, 1996, astronauts Linda Godwin and Michael (Rich) Clifford conducted the first U.S. Extravehicular Activity (EVA), or spacewalk, at the Russian space station Mir.

On March 27, 1996, astronauts Linda Godwin and Michael (Rich) Clifford conducted the first U.S. Extravehicular Activity (EVA), or spacewalk, at the Russian space station Mir. Together, Godwin and Clifford (pictured above) installed and deployed experiment packages on the exterior of the space station’s docking module. The six-hour EVA was the first spacewalk for a Space Shuttle docked to an orbiting space station.

For more on the Shuttle-Mir program and how lessons learned helped shape the International Space Station Program, explore this fact sheet.

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