Amazing Photos from the Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery
NASA

Orbital Pirouette
Held in place by foot restraints at the end of the Canada-built maneuvering arm, astronaut Stephen Robinson cuts a balletic figure—or at least as balletic as possible while wearing an inflated pressure suit—during the third spacewalk of a Discovery mission that ran from late July to early August 2005.

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