Spacewalk Over New Zealand Print

STS-116 Mission Specialists Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang participate in the first of the mission’s three planned sessions of extravehicular activity as construction resumes on the International Space Station. For the 75th Spacewalk in the Space Station’s history and the second for the STS-116 mission. Curbeam and Fuglesang successfully reconfigured power on channels 2 and 3 of the outpost’s electrical system, finishing the work in less than the allotted six hours. Backdropped by New Zealand and Cook Strait in the Pacific Ocean, Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam (left) and Christer Fuglesang take part in the mission’s first spacewalk.