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Spacewalking In Tandem

Bright gold cylindrical space station module with spacewalking astronauts in spacesuits on either side and solar arrays behind
As part of the STS-128 mission's first spacewalk, astronauts Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott (right) removed an empty ammonia tank from the station's truss and temporarily stowed it on the station's robotic arm.

As part of the STS-128 mission’s first spacewalk, astronauts Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott (right) removed an empty ammonia tank from the station’s truss and temporarily stowed it on the station’s robotic arm. Olivas and Stott also retrieved the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) and Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) from the Columbus laboratory module and installed them on Discovery’s payload bay for return.Image Credit: NASA