Taikonauts complete 7-hour spacewalk, the first for China since 2008
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The taikonauts, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo, were supported by Nie Haisheng from the cabin as they carried out extravehicular operations for approximately seven hours.
Liu installed footsteps on the robotic arm that will be used to assemble the rest of the station, and a workstation outside the cabin. He then rode a mechanical arm to a work point where he met Tang.
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Tang had climbed to the work point using handrails and tested the station's emergency escape plan on the way.
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The two adjusted the position of a panoramic camera by installing a lifting bracket. At launch the camera was initially installed at a low position with a limited view, but was lifted to facilitate a broader monitoring of Tianhe's cabin.
The crew [4]left Earth for the space station on 17 June, five years after China's previous crewed mission. The only other Chinese spacewalk was 13 years ago and lasted 20 minutes during the [5]2008 Shenzhou-7 mission . It also involved Liu.
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The walk was televised by state broadcaster CGTN.
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The spacewalk took place just a few days after the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party, which meant a message from the core module.
Three Chinese astronauts or taikonauts stationed in China's [12]#Tianhe core module on Tuesday sent birthday wishes to the Communist Party of China ahead of its centenary. [13]#CPC100Years [14]pic.twitter.com/qPEKqlHT6G — libijian李碧建 (@libijian2) [15]June 30, 2021
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Well done
Neither easy or safe, when it's only the second time for their country and it's a new model suit, not the Feitian model used in 2008.
Yes, the CPC get some progaganda from it, and the crew will have to demonstrate loyalty to be selected but that was true for the soviet cosmonauts too and it doesn't lessen the skill and courage of the engineers and pilots involved.
Re: Well done
While Apollo astronauts were chosen in a free capitalist manner by whoever bid the highest
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We shouldn't be giving a platform to countries with not exactly great human rights track record.
It's like cheering an athlete breaking a record and ignoring the fact they used illegal drugs to achieve it.
We should have standards.
Oh but we have standards.
And if they don't suit you, we have other standards.
Just ask Google or Apple.
Re: Well done
>We shouldn't be giving a platform to countries with not exactly great human rights track record.
You might want to look at the history of the USA space program
Re: Well done
Not to mention Gitmo.
Re: Well done
I reach for the stars (but sometimes I hit London)
W von Baun
I just send them up, where they come down is not my department said Werner von Braun
Well done!
I can only wish them all the luck in and out of the world, the more people and countries that go into space the better for science and man's outward looking.
I am 70, when I was a kid I thought by now we would be a lot further in manned space exploration than we are, never realised space had to demonstrate a profit back then.
Now the profit might be down to who gets a flag/corporate logo on it first.
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>never realised space had to demonstrate a profit back then.
That's what's been holding it back - imagine how aircraft would be if only the US govt had been involved in their development.
We would be attempting to repeat the first crossing of the Atlantic with a new expensive disposable aeroplane
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That's a bit U.S.-centric, a lot of people in Europe (mainly the UK and France) were also busy developing heavier-than-air flying technology at the same time the Wright brother did their thing
Indeed.
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly, they were the first to accomplish [1]controlled flight.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h7GXgG41c
Spot on!
Slightly off-topic for this thread, but if you want to know who did what and when between 1895 and 1909 when the basics of controlled flight were being worked out, read "Kill Devil Hill" by Harry Combs - he was the Learjet chief test pilot and, so by far the best qualified author to have written about the early days of flight. This book shows that, while its not hard to make a machine fly under its own power, making it fly stably is quite a bit harder and making it both easily controllable and stable is at least an order of magnitude harder still. It describes the thought and experimentation that went into achieving all this. Finally, not getting killed while doing all that takes exceptional engineering and problem analysis skills.
That Harry Combs manages to cover all that in a pretty readable book shows that he is a pretty good author too. While his book is primarily about the Wrights, it also covers all all the work done by other pioneers in Europe, UK and North America
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Who stole the jet engine from us again?
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>Who stole the jet engine from us again?
The Germans ?
Interview
- Were you forced to go into space?
- No, I totally wasn't forced. I did it to keep my family safe.
- What would happen if you didn't go?
- We would be sent to a correctional centre to get us adjusted to the Chinese way of life
- Now you are adjusting to life in space?
- Yes it is great, the party let us walk and we even have a robot arm that can do things for us
- Would you come back to earth?
- The earth is wherever we go. However only a hammer has use here and I miss my sickle.
Curtain. The end.