Discovery mission's first spacewalk completed

Astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan conducted a six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk today to retrieve a shuttle heat shield inspection boom mounted on the international space station; prepare the huge Japanese Kibo lab module for installation; and attempt to clean contamination from a critical solar array rotary joint.

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