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Chinese astronauts have successfully performed China’s first tandem spacewalk on July 4, 2021. They worked for seven hours outside new Tiangong station in orbit around the Earth.
- Construction of Tiangong is a major step in China’s ambitious space programme. It has seen nation land a rover on Mars and sends probes to Moon.
- Three astronauts were blasted off in June 2021 to become station’s first crew.
- Astronauts would remain there for three months in the mission which is being dubbed as China’s longest crewed mission to date.
- Two of the astronauts exited the station for some seven hours of work in first spacewalk at Tiangong.
- They returned safely. Safe return of astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo to Tianhe core module highlights complete success of first spacewalk in space station constructed by China.
Published date : 05 Jul 2021 05:04PM
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