Shenzhou-16 crew completes first spacewalk

STORY: Shenzhou-16 crew completes first spacewalk DATELINE: July 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the spacewalk STORYLINE: The Shenzhou-16 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao collaborated to pull off all set tasks with the assistance of the space station's robotic arm. Jing and Zhu have since returned to the Wentian lab module safely. During the extravehicular activities lasting about eight hours, they completed several tasks, including the installation and lifting of the support frame for a panoramic camera outside the Tianhe core module, and unlocking and lifting of two panoramic cameras outside the Mengtian lab module. This was the first time for Jing, who is on his fourth spaceflight, to perform a spacewalk. Zhu has become China's first flight engineer to take part in extrav

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