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There was a long-term concerted program to prepare for extensive EVA activities while assembling a space station but these were primarily in the form of studies, simulations, and the definition of requirements. As the start of ISS assembly loomed, NASA figured some hands-on experience in space was necessary.
What we’re doing is we’re really learning to take spacewalks from a special, rare feat into a production mode…[to] get the station built. It’s a large task, but they’re already planning out how to do it. I think [we] will certainly be able to do the job.
From a 1998 pre-flight interview with Jim Newman, Mission Specialist STS-88
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Even with this new facility, training for EVAs to assemble Space Station Freedom would have been challenging with its originally conceived structure.
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Shayler, D.J. (2017). From Inner To Outer Space. In: Assembling and Supplying the ISS . Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40443-1_9
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