STS-76 Flight Day 6

On this sixth day of the STS-76 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Kevin P. Chilton, Pilot Richard A. Searfoss, and Mission Specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Linda M. Godwin, Michael R. Clifford, and Ronald M. Sega are shown preparing for Godwin and Clifford's extra vehicular activity (EVA). The two astronauts are shown egressing from the Shuttle and performing activities during the EVA with the Earth in the background. Godwin and Clifford spent six hours spacewalking in Atlantis' cargo bay and on the exterior of the Mir's docking module. They are shown completing all of the objectives planned for the spacewalk, the most important of which was to install on the exterior of Mir four experiments to monitor the space environment for the next year and a half. This marks the first time that a spacewalk was conducted from a docked Space Shuttle. A variety of new tools capable of being used on both US and Russian spacecraft were evaluated during the spacewalk.