Shenzhou-14 taikonauts perform third spacewalk

The Shenzhou-14 crew on board the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station is conducting their extravehicular activities for the third time, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

Commander Chen Dong has already gotten out of the space station, and crew member Cai Xuzhe will subsequently exit.

Taikonaut Liu Yang was inside the core module to support her crewmates, the agency said in a brief release yesterday.

They will work together to conduct several extravehicular operations, including the installation of equipment to link modules.

This is the seventh spacewalk by taikonauts in the space station.

It is expected to last 6.5 hours, the agency said.

The taikonauts successfully completed their first two rounds of EVAs in September, both from the airlock cabin of the Wentian lab module. — Xinhua