Shenzhou-14 taikonauts complete 5.5-hour spacewalk
STORY: Shenzhou-14 taikonauts complete 5.5-hour spacewalk
DATELINE: Nov. 17, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:33
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the extravehicular activities
STORYLINE:
The Shenzhou-14 crew on board the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station completed their third spacewalk at 4:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Chen Dong and Cai Xuzhe -- together with Liu Yang who worked inside the core module to support her crewmates -- collaborated to pull off all set tasks. Chen and Cai have since safely returned to the Wentian lab.
During the extravehicular activities (EVAs) lasting about five-and-half hours, they installed an out-of-cabin "bridge" that links the core module with the Wentian lab and the Mengtian lab, while Cai completed the first cross-module spacewalk through the bridge.
They also unlocked Wentian's Panoramic Camera A and mounted assistance handles for the small mechanical arm.
These were the first EVAs conducted afte
- Product Code
- ILEA001058414
- Registered date
- 2022/11/17 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
- Media size
- 1920 × 1080 pixel
- Deployment size
- 96.41(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.