{"id":4947,"date":"2022-09-17T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiaposts.com\/chinese-astronauts-go-on-spacewalk-from-new-station\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:30:00","slug":"chinese-astronauts-go-on-spacewalk-from-new-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiaposts.com\/chinese-astronauts-go-on-spacewalk-from-new-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese astronauts go on spacewalk from new station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEIJING: Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday (Sep 17) from a new space station\u00a0that is due to be completed later this year.<\/p>\n
Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s feet to a robotic arm, state media said.<\/p>\n
China is building its own space station after being excluded by the US from the International Space Station because its military runs the country’s space programme. American officials see a host of strategic challenges from China\u2019s space ambitions, in an echo of the US-Soviet rivalry that prompted the race to the moon in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
The latest spacewalk was the second during a six-month mission that will oversee the completion of the space station. The first of two laboratories, a 23-ton module, was added to the station in July and the other is to be sent up later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[ad_1] BEIJING: Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday (Sep 17) from a new space station\u00a0that is due to be completed later this year. Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s feet to a robotic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[41,398],"yoast_head":"\n