Thomas's first spacewalk !
Par Nelly Sallibartan (Collège Germaine Tillion (91)) le 13 janvier 2017, 19:03 - documents 5th form - Lien permanent
400 km of void under your feet.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is ready for his first spacewalk, on Friday 13 January. Together with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, he will exit the International Space Station at 12:05 GMT (13:05 CET) to work on the batteries.
Thomas practised this spacewalk for months on Earth at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, USA, and has spent the last few weeks in space working intensively to prepare the spacesuits and tools for the sortie.
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