Chinese astronauts went into space at Tiangong station

Chinese astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo made their first spacewalk since the launch of the Shenzhou-12 mission. They went outside their module to carry out work on the Chinese space station Tiangong.

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Only two of the three astronauts in the Tianhe module on the Chinese space station went into outer space.

This is the second spacewalk of Chinese astronauts since the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008, during which Liu Boming helped another astronaut to make a 20-minute walk outside.

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