Space trash floats away during spacewalk

Cosmonauts threw a parcel of hardware into open space in a planned manoeuvre.

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, from the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, have completed a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

As part of their mission to move an experiment airlock from one part of the station to another they discarded a bundle of space junk in a planned manoeuvre.

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