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Spacewalking – like giving birth to yourself

Published on April 3, 2012 By SpaceKate

  I’m grinning from ear to ear. As I type this, cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Konenenko are engaged in a Russian spacewalk, whilst orbiting the Earth at 17,500 mph. Cameras on the international space station, and also mounted on the cosmonauts’ helmets, are showing me their every move. It’s fascinating. A translator relays the […]