EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY astronaut Thomas Reiter, a German, became the first ESA astronaut to perform a spacewalk when he worked outside the Mir space station Oct. 20 for 5 hr. with Russian cosmonaut Sergi Avdeev. The two crewmen installed astrophysics and space environment hardware on Mir's Spektr...
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