Chinese Astronauts Make First Space Walk Outside Tianhe Core Module
Daniyal Sohail Published July 04, 2021 | 10:10 AM
BEIJING (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th July, 2021) Chinese astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo performed a spacewalk on Sunday, exiting the core cabin of China's uncompleted Tiangong orbital station for the first time.
The two astronauts exited the Tianhe core module to work on setting up a robotic arm that will be used to assemble the rest of the station, according to a live broadcast from CCTV. Commander Nie Haisheng stayed inside the core cabin.
China's Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft carrying the three astronauts successfully docked with the Tianhe core module of China's Tiangong orbital station in June.
The Sunday spacewalk was the first to be carried out by Shenzhou-12 crew members; it was also the first outer space activity for Chinese astronauts in the past 13 years.
China launched the Long March 5B carrier rocket with the main module (Tianhe, or "Harmony of the Heavens") for China's future orbital station at the end of April. Tianhe will be the control hub for the Tiangong (or "Heavenly Palace") orbital station.
China expects to finish assembling its first space station in lower Earth orbit by 2022. The country has planned several missions, both cargo ship and crewed ones, across 2021 and 2022 to complete the complex.
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