Sometimes, it takes three 🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀 On May 13, 1992—33 years ago today—astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Pierre J. Thuot stepped outside of space shuttle Endeavour on the first (and so far, only) three-person spacewalk. The trio spent eight-and-a-half hours maneuvering the Intelsat VI satellite seen here into the shuttle's cargo bay, where a new motor was installed to help it reach its final orbit. STS-49, the mission on which this spacewalk took place, was Endeavour's inaugural flight into space. Endeavour flew 25 missions, spending 299 days and over 120 million miles (190 million km) in low Earth orbit, before touching down at NASAKennedy for the last time in 2011. Nine years later, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the first astronauts to visit the ISS in SpaceX's Crew Dragon, named their spacecraft "Endeavour" in honor of the first shuttle they ever flew on. Image description: A massive black, cylindrical satellite hovers in orbit over the complex machinery ...