AFP
Astronauts begin first space walk from Atlantis
US astronauts began the first of three planned spacewalks yesterday from the shuttle Atlantis a day after the spacecraft docked with the International Space Station.
Astronauts Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen began the planned 6.5-hour spacewalk at 7.54 a.m. (1150 GMT) to install a second space-to-ground antenna and a spare parts platform on Dextre, the two-armed robotic device on the ISS.
It was the 237th spacewalk by US astronauts, the second for Reisman and the fourth for Bowen, according to Nasa.
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