NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore started a spacewalk at roughly 7:43 a.m. EST to take away a radio frequency group antenna meeting from the station’s truss, gather samples of floor materials for evaluation from the Future laboratory and the Quest airlock to see whether or not microorganisms might exist on the outside of the orbital complicated, and put together a spare elbow joint for the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
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Williams is crew member 1, sporting a swimsuit with crimson stripes. Wilmore is spacewalk crew member 2, sporting an unmarked swimsuit.
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