Lasting about seven hours, the spacewalk, the second in China's space exploration history, was much longer than the first in 2008 during the Shenzhou-7 mission that lasted about 20 minutes. During the current mission, Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, are equipped with the country...
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Because it takes too much time to pressurize and depressurize both the space suits and the airlocks/spacecraft, astronauts cannot simply go inside the spacecraft and use the toilet to relieve themselves. Therefore, each spacewalking astronaut wears a large, absorbant diaper to collect urine and ...
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Astronaut(宇航员)Wang Yaping,together with Zhai Zhigang,two of the three-member team at China's new Tiangong Space Station,successfully went on a 6.5-hour spacewalk in the early morning of Nov.7 in 2021. So what is a spacewalk?Any time an astronaut goes out in spacesuit...
with a window to what is under the surface of the sea.” The architect, whose home and office are houseboats, wants to launch half a dozen of the vessels. At the moment he says he has half the €35million (￡32mlllion) that it will cost to build the first one, and is confident...
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Finally, the air vessel of the main parachute is pressurized and the air is released from the backup parachute pressurization system, while the rescue system tanks, KSS, (which pump air into cosmonauts' suits) are depressurized. Initially, the capsule descends with its main axis under an angle...