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First Spacewalking Trio

On this day in 1992, NASA completed the first-ever 3-person spacewalk on the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s inaugural mission. Astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Pierre J. Thuot, pictured here, move a 4.5 ton communications satellite (about the size of a couple of Jeep’s). The mission also set a record for the first mission to feature 4 spacewalks. Fun facts: a spacewalk is usually called an EVA (aka “extravehicular activity), and it takes about 45 minutes to put on (aka “don”) a spacesuit. Also about the time it takes to watch an episode of Battlestar. So say we all. (Photo: NASA)