Astronauts Step Out For Spacewalk

Published: Jul 30, 2005
Source: www.cnn.com



Two astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery stepped outside Saturday to repair a gyroscope on the international space station and to perform an experiment to test new techniques for repairing a shuttle damaged in flight.

Steve Robinson and Soichi Noguchi were due to spend more than six hours in space, the first of their three planned excursions outside the shuttle. The second spacewalk is planned for Monday.

"What a view!" Noguchi said as he opened the shuttle's hatch to space, about 360 kilometers (224 miles) above Earth.

The two plan to test tile repair techniques in the payload bay and repair a gyroscope on the international space station during the 6-1/2 hour spacewalk.continue..