Cosmonaut Throws Away Obsolete Hardware Into Space During Spacewalk

  • 2 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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00:00If you are sure about the direction of jettison, then yes.
00:09All right.
00:11And there it goes.
00:13Excellent.
00:18All right. Bye-bye.
00:23Just flies beautifully.
00:27Bye-bye.
00:29Bye-bye.
00:31Bye-bye.
00:33Bye-bye.
00:35Bye-bye.
00:37Bye-bye.
00:39Bye-bye.
00:41Bye-bye.
00:43Bye-bye.
00:45Bye-bye.
00:47Bye-bye.
00:49Bye-bye.
00:51Bye-bye.
00:53Bye-bye.
00:55All right. Bye-bye.
01:01Just flies beautifully.
01:05And we are monitoring.
01:08That would be a new star.
01:11Yeah, it's actually quite shiny.

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