Gallery: The Best Photos From 50 Years of NASA Spacewalks
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June, 1965. Edward H. White II becomes the first American spacewalker, floating outside Gemini IV.
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February, 1984. Bruce McCandless II tests out the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), a nitrogen-propelled backpack. He was the first astronaut to travel through space untethered.
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December, 1993. Story Musgrave and Jeffery A. Hoffman make some upgrades as part of the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission .
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April, 1983. Story Musgrave and Don Peterson in the Challenger’s cargo bay. The astronauts are secured to the space shuttle with tethers and safety slide wires.
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November, 1984. Using a Manned Maneuvering Unit, Dale A. Gardner gets ready to dock with the spinning WESTAR VI satellite.
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August, 1973. Owen Garriott outside the Apollo Telescope Mount of the Skylab space station cluster.
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March, 1969. David Scott during the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission.
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April, 1972. Charles M. Duke Jr. stands at the edge of Plum crater during the Apollo 16 mission’s first extravehicular activity.
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December, 2006. STS-116 mission specialists Robert L. Curbeam Jr. and Christer Fuglesang during a spacewalk on the International Space Station with New Zealand in the background.
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December, 1972. Eugene A. Cernan out on the Apollo 17’s first extravehicular activity session.
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December, 1999. Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfeld replace gyroscopes inside the Hubble Space Telescope.
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December, 1998. Jerry L. Ross and James H. Newman spacewalk on the first International Space Station (ISS) assembly mission.
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May, 2011. Greg Chamitoff goes back inside after a 6-hour, 19-minute spacewalk at the International Space Station.
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July, 1971. James B. Irwin and the Lunar Roving Vehicle during extravehicular activity at the Hadley-Apennine landing site.
