Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was the first European woman to complete a seven-hour field mission on the International Space Station (ISS). Live images from the American space agency NASA (video) showed on Thursday how the Italian, together with her Russian colleague Oleg Artemyev, carried out repairs at the outpost of humanity.
Cristoforetti wore a spacesuit with blue stripes, Artemyev a spacesuit with red stripes. It was Artemyev’s sixth spacewalk. After just over seven hours, the duo finished their mission.
During the spacewalk, they successfully completed a number of tasks, NASA reports. Only the installation of a telescopic boom, which can assist astronauts in further remote missions, has been postponed, they say.
Cristoforetti is the first Italian woman in space. The 45-year-old ESA astronaut also currently holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a European woman (as of Friday morning: 199 days).
Source: Krone
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