Chinese astronauts carry out country’s second spacewalk
- Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo test next-generation spacesuits and install equipment to be used in future missions
- Liu says the view outside the Tiangong space station is ‘stunningly beautiful’
Nearly 13 years after China’s first spacewalk, two Chinese astronauts have made a second foray into space outside the Tiangong space station.
Liu Boming was the first to leave the module on Sunday morning and was joined by Tang Hongbo three hours later.
Liu described the view outside the module as “stunningly beautiful”.
During the spacewalk – one of the most important parts of their mission – they tested next-generation spacesuits, installed equipment to be used on future missions and carried out a number of technical tasks, according to the Chinese space agency.
The agency said the crew completed all designated tasks for their spacewalk, which took nearly seven hours, and Liu and Tang went back to the space station. The astronauts are expected to perform another spacewalk in the coming days.
