Nasa’s two ‘stuck’ astronauts exit space station for first spacewalk together
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore expected to stay at space station a week but have been there almost eight months
Nasa’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together on Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore floated out to perform maintenance work and wipe the station’s exterior for evidence of any microbes that might still be alive after launching from Earth and escaping through vents.
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