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  • They Used A GoPro To Film An Actual Spacewalk [Video]

    30 Mar 2017 by Sloane Hunter in Lifestyle, Tech/Sci, Vibe, Video
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    During those spacewalk moments in any space-related movie, I often wonder how it would feel to be out in the open, surrounded by the dank nothingness of the universe.

    Because there’s the danger aspect, too, a point which nearly every space-related movie is on a mission to get across by using a spacewalk-gone-wrong as the moment everything gets messy.

    In real life, however, NASA has prepared for most risks, whether it involves spacesuit failures or micrometeor hits – or even a breakaway piece of equipment that may have no weight in space, but has more than enough mass and momentum to crush you flat.

    NASA demonstrated this on Friday morning when Shane Kimbrough went on a walkabout and took along with him a GoPro.

    The current commander of the International Space Station, Kimbrough ventured outside along with flight engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and worked manual labour for nearly six and a half hours, reports TIME.

    And nothing dangerous happened in that time.

    Here’s the mission’s deets, from TIME:

    Their mission was mostly electricians’ work — laying cables and otherwise reconfiguring the station for the arrival of commercial crews sometime in 2018 or 2019. But a wiring job never looked so beautiful.

    For Kimbrough, this was the fifth spacewalk; for Pesquet it was the second. Don’t count on it being their last. Once an astronaut has tasted the bliss of free flight in the void of space, it’s hard to resist the urge to go back.

    Ready to check it? Here we go:

    Could it be considered as the job with the most beautiful view? No wonder it took them six-and-a-half hours.

    [source:time]

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