Taikonauts execute first spacewalk with full success, laying ground for future space station EVA missions

BEIJING, July 4 Global Times): "Wow, it is so beautiful out here!"

This was what taikonaut Liu Boming said in awe as he moved out of the node cabin of China's Tianhe space station core module at 8:11 am on Sunday, when he embarked on the first extravehicular activity (EVA), or more commonly known as the spacewalk. This was the second spacewalk in China's aerospace history following the one in the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008.