Two NASA Spacewalkers Recover Space Station Antenna

NASA spacewalker Sunita Williams.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Two NASA astronauts teamed up to retrieve a stuck radio frequency group (RFG) antenna during a nearly 5 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Jan. 30. Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore enhanced their extended mission to the ISS by recovering the...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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