Cosmonaut Throws Away Obsolete Hardware Into Space During Spacewalk

  • 4 months ago
During a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev jettisoned a 5-kilogram bundle of obsolete hardware into the vacuum of space.

Credit: NASA | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
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00:00 If you are sure about the direction of jettison, then yes.
00:08 All right.
00:10 And there it goes.
00:12 Excellent.
00:13 All right, bye-bye.
00:19 Just flies beautifully.
00:25 And we are monitoring.
00:28 That would be a new star.
00:30 Yeah, it's actually quite shiny.
00:33 We see the-- then yes.
00:47 All right.
00:49 And there it goes.
00:50 Excellent.
00:51 All right, bye-bye.
00:57 Just flies beautifully.
01:03 And we are monitoring.
01:06 That would be a new star.
01:09 Yeah, it's actually quite shiny.
01:12 [ Music ]

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