Year 3 - Mrs Chetty Home

Space Walk - Tim Peake

1.  British astronaut Tim Peake completed his first spacewalk at 17:31 GMT on Friday 15 January after nearly five hours in space.
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3.  Intended to be longer than six hours, the walk was cut short after his US colleague Tim Kopra reported water in his helmet.
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5.  The duo successfully completed their main job, replacing a faulty unit that regulates power from the station's solar panels.
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7.  Other scheduled work, including routing many metres of cables for new docking ports, was left for future spacewalks.
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9.  Major Tim is currently on a six-month mission to the space station for the European Space Agency.