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Robert Curbeam: Building the Space Station, Making History

Robert Curbeam
Robert Curbeam currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight.

Robert Curbeam currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight. In this image from December 2006, Curbeam works on the port overhead solar array wing on the International Space Station’s P6 truss during Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-116 mission. This was the mission’s fourth spacewalk.

Curbeam conducted this spacewalk with European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame), using specially prepared, tape-insulated tools, to guide the array wing neatly inside its blanket box during the 6-hour, 38-minute spacewalk. #BlackHistoryMonth

Image Credit: NASA