Two Atlantis astronauts install ISS antenna in first spacewalk

WASHINGTON. November 20. KAZINFORM Two U.S. astronauts conducted the first spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantis and installed an antenna on the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, NASA said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

According to NASA, mission specialists Michael Foreman and Dr. Robert Satcher Jr. began the spacewalk at 9:24 a.m. EDT (1424 GMT),which lasted six hours and 37 minutes.

The duo installed a spare antenna to the outside of the ISS in just two hours after venturing out. They also hooked up cables and a handrail, and greased some mechanisms; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

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