Hello space fans! We want to send you off on your day and into the weekend with one of the prettiest space scenes that we know. Here, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the International Space Station's S1 truss during the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in Dec. 2006. European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame) was his partner in the 6-hour, 36-minute spacewalk.
In 2007, President George W. Bush recognized Curbeam and fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham — crewmates on Discovery's STS-116 mission, the first shuttle mission with two African-American crew members. President Bush called STS-116 "one of the most challenging missions in NASA's history.”
Keep watching
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Credit: NASA
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