Taikonauts perform seven-hour spacewalk


Successful mission: Chen returning to the space station after completing the spacewalk. — China Daily/ANN

Beijing: Astronauts on the Shenzhou XIV mission have carried out their first spacewalk, also known as an extravehicular activity, which finished early on Friday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

Mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong opened an extravehicular activity hatch on the Tiangong space station at 6:26pm on Thursday Beijing time and then floated out of the station.

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