Chinese astronauts complete new spacewalk outside space station

Beijing, Mar 2 (Prensa Latina) Two astronauts of China's Shenzhou-15 mission completed without setbacks their second spacewalk outside the nation's Tiangong space station, which the country built and plans to put into operation this year, official sources confirmed on Thursday.

March 2, 2023
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The Manned Space Agency reported that they have been conducting extravehicular activities and returned to the station’s central module but did not specify the date of the operations.

It was the second spacewalk of the Chinese astronauts since the first one occurred on February 10. Among others, they finished installing external pumps outside the Mengtian laboratory module.

The Shenzhou-15 mission departed to space on November 29, 2022, with three crew members who will stay for six months in the central module of the space station to finalize its assembly.

It is the tenth manned mission in the history of China.

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