At the end of the spacewalk, Kopra was one of the first people to congratulate the two spacewalkers on a successful outing. He especially congratulated rookie spacewalker Drew."Congratulations on a stellar job on your first spacewalk," Kopra who owns shop online 2011 told Drew. "Good job, dude."Drew also became the 200th person in history to work in the vacuum of space, according to NASA officials.Shortly after Bowen and Drew returned inside the space station, Mission Control radioed the station and shuttle crews to say that Discovery's STS-133 mission will be extended an extra day.The extra day will give the crew the opportunity to complete more work on a storage module that will be attached to the station's Unity node tomorrow.The coach Outlet storespaceship mix includes: a European cargo ship called the Automated Transfer Vehicle 2 (ATV), a Japanese cargo vessel known as HTV-2, a Russian cargo ship, two Russian Soyuz crew capsules and the shuttle Discovery."I've decided the HTV and ATV are both big," Bowen joked as he stood at the tip of the station's robotic arm to retrieve the broken cooling pump module.Today's spacewalk was Bowen's sixth and the first for Drew.Bowen, a veteran spacewalker, was a last-minute crew replacement for astronaut Timothy Kopra, who was the STS-133 mission's lead spacewalker. Kopra was injured in a bicycle accident less than six weeks before Discovery's launch, forcing him to sit out on the orbiter's historic final flight.Kopra remained involved in today's spacewalk, however, by providing support from mission control here at the Johnson Space Center."You're a good man for the job," Kopra radioed to Bowen prior to the start of the spacewalk.Inside Discovery, Stott played the song "coach handbags Message in a Bottle" by the Police to commemorate the occasion.Big spaceships, bigger space stationWhile working outside, Bowen and Drew caught some unique views of the space station, which is currently home to an international collection of spacecraft from four different space fleets.
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