00:04The International Space Station might be the longest orbiting operational space station at
00:09this point, with astronauts from the US, Europe, and Russia all manning the station. But China now
00:14has an operational station orbiting our planet as well, and last year they performed one of their
00:18first spacewalks. Now those astronauts are opening up about the experience, and how thrilling suiting
00:24up and moving around in space really is. Their first spacewalk took place on September 1st and
00:292nd just last year, with Shenju-14 astronaut Lu Yang explaining, quote,
00:43The astronaut goes on to say that the word abyss fails to describe the utter nothing that they saw
00:47when looking out into space, as there's nothing at all to reference for distance or scope. Adding,
00:52quote,
00:59The astronauts then performed another spacewalk 17 days later, this time including a mock rescue,
01:05requiring one of the astronauts to let go of the station and drift. Adding that after letting
01:09themselves release the handholds, they instinctively wanted to grab them again, but did not,
01:14letting go and allowing their crewmate to rescue them.
01:16their kids from the spacewalk
Comments