It’s ‘like mending a watch while wearing oven gloves and falling off an infinitely tall building,’ says one veteran. Here’s what the astronauts will be doingFor Tim Peake, the view is approximately to get a whole lot better. After a month confined to the tubular compartments of the International Space Station, or the British astronaut is to step external for the first time on Friday for a spectacular,gruelling spacewalk far above the world.
Scheduled for 12.55 GMT and due to last more than six hours, the spacewalk calls for Peake and his Nasa partner Tim Kopra to traverse nearly the entire length of the space station to replace a broken power unit, and fit a novel valve,and lay tens of metres of cable.
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Source: theguardian.com