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Mission Specialist Ron Garan, participates in the first scheduled session of extravehicular activity on the STS-124 mission. During the six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Garan and astronaut Mike Fossum (out of frame), loosened restraints holding the Orbiter Boom Sensor System in its temporary stowage location on the space station's starboard truss, prepared the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module for its installation to the space station, demonstrated cleaning techniques for the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint's race ring and installed a replacement SARJ Trundle Bearing Assembly.

June 3, 2008 -- Mission Specialist Ron Garan, participates in the first scheduled session of extravehicular activity on the STS-124 mission.

During the six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Garan and astronaut Mike Fossum (out of frame), loosened restraints holding the Orbiter Boom Sensor System in its temporary stowage location on the space station's starboard truss, prepared the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module for its installation to the space station, demonstrated cleaning techniques for the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint's race ring and installed a replacement SARJ Trundle Bearing Assembly.

Photo credit: NASA/JSC