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Astronaut Paul S. Lockhart, pilot, assists astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria with final touches on his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) space suit. Moments later, astronauts Lopez-Alegria and John B. Herrington went on to begin the first of three spacewalks to perform work on the International Space Station (ISS). With the assistance of the rest of the shuttle and station crewmembers who worked inside the shirt sleeve environments of the two docked spacecraft, the two mission specialists successfully hooked up connections between the Port One (P1) truss and the rest of the station.