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During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
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STS-6
1983 American crewed spaceflight and maiden flight of Space Shuttle Challenger
STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, into orbit, before landing at Edwards Air Force…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Story Musgrave
American physician and astronaut (born 1935)
Franklin Story Musgrave is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Donald H. Peterson
American astronaut (1933–2018)
Donald Herod Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. He was a mission specialist on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Space Shuttle
Partially reusable launch system and space plane
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was the Space Transportation System…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)