Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country's space station.
Fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station's main module on Sunday evening and Wang followed later. They installed equipment and carried out tests alongside the station's robotic service arm, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The spacewalk lasted until early Monday.
The three are the second crew on the permanent station, and the mission that began with their arrival Oct. 16 is scheduled to be the longest stretch of time in space yet for Chinese astronauts. Three spacewalks are planned to install equipment in preparation for the station's expansion, while the crew will also assess living conditions in the Tianhe module and conduct experiments in space medicine and other fields.
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