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On This Day in Space! April 7, 1983: 1st spacewalk from a NASA space shuttle
07/04/2021 07:34 PM | Click to read full article
On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1.
NASA now uses a whole fleet of these satellites to relay communications between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations down on Earth.
